- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:28:22 +0200
- To: danny666@virgilio.it
- Cc: rdf-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Mar 16, 2004, at 16:12, ext Danny Ayers wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > Just a thought - what is/should be considered the Concise Bounded > Resource Description if the URI identifies an RDF schema/OWL ontology > namespace? It depends on (a) what is really being denoted by the URI (i.e. is it the vocabulary/ontology, or the particular serialization (document) expressing the vocabulary/ontology, and (b) what the owner of the URI want's to say about it. One could have distinct URIs for a vocabulary/ontology, it's RDF/XML expression, it's N3 expression, it's XTM expression, etc. so one first has to be sure about what the URI is actually intended to denote. If it denotes e.g. an RDF vocabulary or OWL ontology, then one could include in the description statements defining its title, description, owner/creator, publication/use restrictions, version, relation to other vocabularies/ontologies, etc. I.e. statements describing the vocabulary/ontology. One would not expect to find an entire definition of the vocabulary/ontology itself in the description of the vocabulary (nor could you, given the definition of a concise bounded description). > > e.g. what should an MGET on http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ return? It would return the concise bounded description of the resource denoted by that URI. It's really as simple as that. If the owner of the URI isn't clear about what that URI actually denotes, and ends up with a confusing and even self-contradictory description then s/he has to be more precise/consistent in the use of that URI in statements so that the denotation is consistent and unambiguous. If I had to guess, I'd expect that http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ denotes a vocabulary, and a description of that vocabulary would indicate the terms in includes, its relation to other vocabularies, who owns/defines the vocabulary, perhaps a title and description, etc. E.g. something along the same lines as the description for the vocabulary denoted by http://sw.nokia.com/FN-1 Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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