- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:42:20 +0200
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
Steven Pemberton wrote: >> I was wondering whether we might also sneak in a common symbol >> '#123412341234' (or something else obscure) meaning "the main thing >> described by this document", so that this common case could proceed >> without risk of unintended clashes (except by those who use that >> hard-to-guess symbol). > > Ugh ugh ugh! > > You have suddenly set the burner under my "willingness to argue for a > pto: URI scheme" a notch higher! Two notches! Mission accomplished ;) > I absolutely support an easy way to say "the main thing described by > this document", a) since it is such an important and frequent use case, > b) authoring it should be easy, and c) I understood at a talk at XTech > that a lot of people are already doing this wrong. > > But please, please, if we're going to do it, let's do it cleanly, and > not with a hack! OK. How about picking things up around ttdb, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001May/0327.html etc. My main concern there is with the date index. It is definitely useful, ...but I'd like also to be able to encourage non-datestamped usage, particularly for documents whose maintainers make a respectable-looking commitment not to alter them. The dates make work harder for aggregators to find out when two URIs actually are talking about the same entity, ... and since that's what we're setting out to make easier, I think sometimes the risk of using a smaller set of identifiers is going to be worth it. http://larry.masinter.net/duri.html "This Internet-Draft will expire on October 16, 2004." Anyone know if there are plans to ressurect this? For RDFa usage, relative URIs might be an issue to spend time on, if we want to embed RDFa claims about 'the thing described by' the current page, without including its full http://etc URI. Having a way of mixing in 'the thing that has this value of this property' identification would also be great... cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/ -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu#The_Call_of_Cthulhu
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