Re: Data format version

Very old thread (in fact it outlived the mailing list!), but I still have a
need for versioning data. It seems that representationTechnique vocab is
now deprecated

So I think the modern version is schema : schemaVersion now, which I think
I'll go with.

út 6. 1. 2026 v 13:55 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
napsal:

> Very old thread, but I still have a need for versioning data. It seems
> that representationTechnique vocab is now deprecated
>
> So I think the modern version is schema : schemaVersion now, which I think
> I'll go with.
>
> po 14. 1. 2013 v 21:38 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <
> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> napsal:
>
>>
>>
>> On 3 January 2013 13:16, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This issue comes up more than one would hope. Ivan Herman's work on
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/ is one answer (as Tim has pointed out)
>>> and dcterms:format doesn't quite cover it. When working on ADMS we had to
>>> come up with a new Class and property pair. See
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#adms:representationTechnique
>>>
>>> (ADMS is under development in the W3C Gov Linked Data WG but is already
>>> being used by various public sector bodies).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Phil, Tim ... I'm going to go with
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#representationTechnique
>>
>> Bearing in mind it's more or a hint that a bot can stiff when it gets
>> confused, rather than, a hard and fast rule ...
>>
>>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/01/2013 11:55, Tim Haynes wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 01/02/2013 10:59 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Was wondering if anyone knew of a predicate that could be used to
>>>>> define
>>>>> the data format in a document.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not the MIME type, more a level of granularity within a mime type
>>>>> to represent certain evolutions of the project.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've looked at
>>>>>
>>>>> owl : versionInfo -- but that seems only to apply to ontologies
>>>>> doap : version -- but that seems to apply to projects
>>>>> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/doc#version -- seems to be the
>>>>> version of the document
>>>>>
>>>>> What I'm looking for is a string that say the data in the document is
>>>>> of
>>>>> a certain kind e.g. opensocial v0.1 vs opensocial v0.2
>>>>>
>>>>> I know RDF should be perfectly self descriptive, but this will give the
>>>>> processor a hint as to what it will find, any bugs etc.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How about
>>>> http://dublincore.org/documents/2012/06/14/dcmi-
>>>> terms/?v=terms#MediaType
>>>> or
>>>> something in http://www.w3.org/ns/formats/
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>>
>>>> ~Tim
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Phil Archer
>>> W3C eGovernment
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>>> January 28 - 29 2013, Washington DC
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>