Hello John, (01)
I don't know how interested the people in this forum are in such
issues - a more common place where this would be discussed would be a
list like semantic-web@xxxxxx (02)
Given that I'll keep my comments short. My colleague Jonathan Rees and
I at Science Commons have been investigating this issue for some time
and have come up with a set of principles and prototypes that you
might find useful to consider. You might have a look at
- http://neurocommons.org/page/Common_Naming_Project - requirements in general
- http://neurocommons.org/page/CommonsPurl - a prototype for managing
responses based in a wiki
- http://purl.obofoundry.org/obo/OBO_0000225 - an example of what we
think should be a typical response for an ontology term (03)
In short, we consider # to not scale, and recommend "/", and also
recommend against using content negotiation.
For a recent presentation on some of our surrounding work, see
http://sw.neurocommons.org/presentations/gsk20080824.pdf (04)
We'd be glad to discuss this further with you. (05)
Regards,
Alan (06)
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:37 PM, John Graybeal <graybeal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a few practical implementation approach issues when dealing
> with ontology term URIs. Is this an appropriate forum for asking such
> questions, or if not, can you suggest a better one? As my project is
> putting together on ontology repository, we are creating a mechanism
> to resolve URLs that are used for terms, so we are forced to flatten
> many philosophical and strategic questions into more mundane
> practicalities.
>
> For example, the first issue is as follows: My understanding is that
> fragment identifiers are used for RDF resources to indicate the term.
> But browsers are not built to handle/resolve/present RDF/OWL
> resources, or to display particular terms from them -- they will just
> download the URI resource as a file and that's that. Can anyone point
> me to existing examples where the server can present the results of a
> URL like
> http://mmisw.org/ont/mmi/200807/phenomena#wind_speed
> so that the user sees a page in their browser on the term wind_speed
> (either exclusively, or at least at the top of the page)?
>
> (It would be so nice if the URL could replace the '#' with a '/', but
> then it wouldn't be a nice RDF term URI, would it?)
>
> I can imagine how to do this but I'd like to leverage any other effort
> in the community, if such exists.
>
>
> John
>
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