RE: How do you deprecate URIs? Re: OWL-DL and linked data

Hi Bijan,

> From: Bijan Parsia
>
> On 15 Jul 2008, at 18:15, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:
>
> > It is the *URI* that you wish to deprecate -- not the resource
> > denoted by that URI, so the deprecation statement *must*
>
> Not really.
>
> > be written something like this:
> >
> >   "http://lingvoj.org/iso-639/languages#da"^^xsd:anyURI
> >       owl:deprecatesURI
> >
> "http://downlode.org/rdf/iso-639/languages#da"^^xsd:anyURI  .
> >
> > using "" rather than <> to indicate that you are talking about the
> > URI itself, rather than the resource denoted by that URI.
>
> You could easily figure it out from context.
>
> > The Semantic Web community does not yet seem to be accustomed to
> > taking about URIs themselves,
>
> People make use/mention slides all the time. In all sorts of context.
> Sometimes it matters. Sometimes it doesn't. I don't know which it is
> in this case.

Certainly if you step outside of RDF there are many ways the distinction can be made.  The discussion (I thought) was about how to make a deprecation statement *in* RDF.  RDF has no notion of context.



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