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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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