Re: URIs / URLs

> so if I want to store some metadata that states you wrote the email
> this is a response to, which URI would you suggest I use for the
> email and which URI to identify you?

Use a date stamped MID for the email (message IDs are only required to
be unique for two years). As for identifying Charles, you have the
three options that Sandro recently outlined. I would suggest that
unless you want to re-represent Charles, you use an anonymous node:-

  [ :name "Charles McCathieNevile"; :worksFor
     "W3C"; :date "2001" ]

If you want to reuse the node, then simply give it a proprietary
name:-

  @prefix : <#> .
  :Charles :name "Charles McCathieNevile"; :worksFor
     "W3C"; :date "2001" .

Where Charles could possibly be an HTTP URI if you want people to
dereference it to find out more information about Charles. A good
example might be a FragID to his W3C homepage. Note that the more
information you include, the less persistent your data will likely be,
e.g. Charles might move his homepage, but if you used a TANN it should
remain persistent. Once again, through date-stamping, and being
careful to recognize the scope of your data-store, you should be able
to avoid any major problems.

--
Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
@prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> .
:Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .

Received on Thursday, 12 April 2001 12:37:48 UTC