Re: temporary urn:predicates

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 04:59:29PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> I was talking recently about barriers to producing semantic web data.
> 
> Normally a predicate has to be
> 
> - A URI
> - Preferably an HTTP URI
> - Preferably an existing URI
> 
> This (Im told) can be a barrier for newcomers.  They have to find the right
> name for a predicate, the right URI, and then see if it's already used.  If
> not create their own vocabulary.
> 
> At this point some might give up.
> 
> So I was wondering how it might be possible to create a temporary URI that
> people could use as a place holder, so the software still works, until they
> think of a better name.
> [...]

One can use a UUID URN as a namespace: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122
For example <urn:uuid:19b75eab-77bd-46a7-a9c6-1ff0fd135a56#>

There is also a URN namespace for examples:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6963

Received on Monday, 13 July 2015 13:43:12 UTC