RE: reference needed - w3.org versioned documents

> From: Jonathan Rees
> [ . . . ] dereferencing
>                    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20030123/
>               always gives the same thing but
>                   http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/
>               might not?
>
> [ . . . ]
> In any
> of these interpretations there is little guidance in knowing
> *which* thing of whatever variety is being named. In other
> words, the URI is not of much use as a name at the present time.

Well, what do you *want* to be able to say about it?  You could certainly say something like:

  <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/>
    skos:narrower
      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20030123/> .

or if you want to think of these as documents, using terms from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
you could say something like:

  <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/>
    dc:hasVersion
      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20030123/> .

Is that what you want?



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