> > it's not feasible, nor enforceable, nor desirable to develop ontologies > entirely with random URIs as identifiers. Just to be clear, I said "pure identifiers", not "random URIs". I like integers as local IDs. Add a base URI and you've got perfectly good URIs for everything. Or a default prefix, if extra colons make you feel more comfortable. We're talking about practice, so "enforceable" is not the issue here, and "desirable" is the question we're considering. It's certainly feasible, though: countless data-systems throughout technological history have used pure identifiers for machine purposes and human-readable names for human purposes. It's not feasible without tool support, I'll give you that. But neither are spreadsheets. I see no reason to stipulate, in 2011, that the world-wide database should be written in text editors.
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