- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 10:39:53 +0100
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>, tai@g5n.co.uk, richard@cyganiak.de, www-archive@w3.org
Sandro Hawke wrote: > [to a much-smaller list] > >>> Suffice to say, the new namespace URI is: >>> >>> http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns# >>> >>> I can't imagine many people have had time to implement it yet, given that >>> I only posted about it about 16 hours ago, but for what it's worth, I'll >>> keep the old documents at the old URI for the next week or so, to allow >>> any early adopters to catch up. >> Consider using /additional/ versioned URIs, e.g. >> >> <http://purl.org/NET/biol/20080510/ns#> >> <http://purl.org/NET/biol/20080921/ns#> >> >> from which people can access the previous versions of your ontology. The >> version-free URI, which you have chosen now, will always refer to the >> latest >> of these versioned ontologies. >> >> The URI of the ontology, which is used within the ontology header, will >> always be the version-free one. But you may, as a hint to people, add an >> 'owl:versionInfo' annotation property to the ontology header, which >> points >> to the respective versioned URI: >> >> <owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns"> >> <owl:versionInfo rdf:resource="http://purl.org/NET/biol/20080510/ns" /> >> </owl:Ontology> > > I think this is probably a good approach, but I'd refine it a little bit > and say that the "main" namespace should not so much dereference to the > "latest" ontology, as the "latest release". There can (and probably > should) be alpha- and beta-test versions which are "later" but not (yet) > suitable replacements. > > Make sense? (I've never done this with ontologies -- there could be a > problem with it -- but i think it's right.) Makes sense to me (although 'latest ontology' to me doesn't necessarily include any experimental versions). Maybe we can borrow terminology from Subversion etc and have a 'trunk' URL for works-in-progress? Dan -- http://danbri.org/
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