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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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