- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:03:41 +0200
- To: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
- Cc: Earle Martin <earle@downlode.org>
All Following my previous message mentioning lingvoj.org URIs, I had a message from Earle Martin, early publisher of alternative URIs for languages at downlode.org. Considering that lingvoj URIs are "better" than his own URIs (thanks), he wants the downlode URIs to be flagged as deprecated and replaced by the matching lingvoj URIs. On my side I want to keep track of those URIs at lingvoj.org, if only for backward compatibility, and to acknowledge the pioneering work of Earle in this domain. :-) How should we do that? My first thought was to flag the downlode.org URIs with something like owl:DeprecatedIndividual <http://downlode.org/rdf/iso-639/languages#da> owl:DeprecatedIndividual "True" ... but found out that such a property does not exist. OWL allows to deprecate classes and properties, but not individuals :-( . Why so, I don't know, since individuals are at least as versatile as classes and properties, they are as likely to be deprecated. And, supposing such a property exists, the semantics of it would be depreciation of the *entity*, not of the URI ... which means if I declare something as the above alongside with <http://downlode.org/rdf/iso-639/languages#da> owl:sameAs <http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/da> I can infer that the lingvoj.org URI, or exactly the resource it identifies, is also deprecated! Which is of course not at all the intended semantics ... So ... I wonder. Any idea welcome ... Bernard -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/>
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