- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:16:51 +0100
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:42:42 +0100, Phil Dawes wrote: > Do you use any opaque URIs for properties and classes? No, for the reasons you talk about, but its just as commonly a problem, as you often end up with a class with a slightly misleading, or historical name. Database people generally seem to have human readable table and column names too. I have seen ontologies with classes like class214, but not many. I think the FCA people do it more than general ontology people. > But the advantages are so compelling to me that I'm wondering if > opaque uris are the way forward for classes/properties too. Maybe > developers could use a gui tool to generate their queries (including > comments) before cut-n-pasting into code? With the extensive use of rdfs:label this could be OK, but I like my queries to be readable. - Steve
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