On 1 Feb 2014, at 23:59, Amanda Vizedom
wrote:
In my experience, that just isn't
true.
In our experience, that is 100 percent true :-) The model+SPARQL is
so complex that we have enough trouble debugging even using human-readable
URIs. No way we'd meet our delivery deadlines if we made it harder - so we
don't, and won't.
In this thread, there's lots of "the tool should do x" and "we can
dereference" and "why don't you just add search of labels into your SPARQL",
etc.
My response is that the entire point of this conversation was to discuss
characteristics that make ontologies more reusable. Imposing expectations on
how people will use the ontologies or imposing your own expectations on the
tooling they must use is clearly a barrier to reuse. So, if your goal is
to create ontologies with the widest possible audience of potential re-users
... then use human-readable URIs. It's just that simple. People who don't care
about them can ignore them and people who do can use them.
Ontology developers can, of course, decide if they want to remove an
entire class of use cases/users/tools from their audience or not. For example,
the15926 RDL URI strategy is one that makes none of those classes or
properties directly usable in the kind of app we're development. We do, of
course, relate our ontology under 15926 classes using seeReferenceData
annotations so it's possible for software developers to see the relationship
in case it's useful.
FWIW I was disappointed when the 15926 RDL decisions were being made 10+
years ago, but I was a standards maker then. Matthew's explanation of
how/why the 15926 community made those decisions is also what I remember ...
but some of us did complain about that decision even back then because it was
clear to me it would come back to bite someone eventually. I just
never expected that someone to be me :-)
Cheers,
David
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