Re: (Lost in the noise perhaps - so asking again) - Is a trailing slash 'better' than a trailing hash for vocabs namespace IRIs?

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:23 PM David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/22 20:53, Pat McBennett wrote:
>  > [The slightly reduced efficiency of a slash IRI] is a price well
>  > worth paying . . . [for] a single, simple piece of *guidance*
>  > to follow . . . .
>
> +1
>
>  > [Complex guidance] is precisely what results in newbies running
>  > screaming to the hills... :)
>
> +1
>
> To reap the benefit of this lengthy discussion -- i.e., to prevent
> it from being viewed as merely bike shedding -- I suggest that this
> guidance (to use slash IRIs) be written up as an RDF Community Group
> "Best Practice" document published on the W3C website.   That should
> give it sufficient search engine mojo for people to easily find
> it.  And -- *after* the up-front-clear-and-simple guidance -- the
> document can also summarize the rationale for that guidance, and also
> summarize reasons why hash IRIs might occasionally be used instead.

What effect will such Best Practice have on the thousands of
vocabularies already out there in the wild?

>
> Thanks,
> David Booth
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:35:24 UTC