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

On 10/12/22 07:35, Martynas Jusevičius wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:23 PM David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
>> 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?

None, I presume, because "cool URIs don't change".

David Booth

Received on Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:50:36 UTC