David,
Probably the greatest concern with the approach you describe is a
sociological one. If we adopt any system consisting simply of HTTP
URIs, there will be a tendency for issuers simply to put forward
existing URLs and declare them to be GUIDs without making the effort to
consider perma
Donald,
For the most part, http URIs can be designed (using
specialized prefixes) to provide all the benefits of any new URI scheme or URN
sub-scheme, plus more. For example, a specialized http URI
prefix such as "http://lsid.tdwg.org?" could be functionally equivalent to the prefix
"urn:
ACPP weekly Tcon:
SW_HCLS(ACPP)
SW Life Sciences IG
Tuesdays
3:00pm-4:00pm EDT time
Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, conference 2277 ("ACPP")
Agenda:
1. Review Davide's update on ACPP ontology
2. F2F preparation: deliverables and
tasks.
Helen
Dear Eric,
Thank you for mentioning TDWG's adoption of LSIDs. The Taxonomic
Databases Working Group (http://www.tdwg.org/) is an
international
association focused on developing collaboration between biological
database projects. Its focus is primarily on whole-organism data
(natural history
Thanks for putting this out there for consideration, Eric. I certainly agree the amount of effort they have invested on the issue of using LSIDs as GUIDs for organism taxonomic information makes they a very worthy example, and, as they're work continues to progress, a possible existence proof of t
Hi Marco,Many thanks for your substantive remarks regarding the details of applying RDF +/- OWL to this particular issue. These are very important points to flesh out, and your experience obviously provides valuable insight on the problem.Regarding the other knowledge representation projects relat
Sorry, I meant to send the message below to the mailing list... not only
to the sender...
Thanks to AJ for the prompt reply.
AJ Chen wrote:
I uploaded one mock example for each of the class (object) of the SPE
ontology to the wiki at
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ScientificPublishingTaskFor
