Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-19 Thread Eric Neumann
Here is a link to the message I sent out last year regarding handling URNs in concatenated URL forms: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/2005Apr/0010 This approach only works if it is explicitly agreed that URN's need to be accompanied by a handler URL. As stated by ot

RE: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-19 Thread Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)
half Of William Bug > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:20 AM > To: John Madden > Cc: Alan Ruttenberg; w3c semweb hcls > Subject: Re: [rdf] Re: URIs > > > > I think this is an excellent reference to work from, when dealing > with the issue of URIs in RDF generation &

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-19 Thread William Bug
I think this is an excellent reference to work from, when dealing with the issue of URIs in RDF generation & processing. As I have always seen it (this is admittedly a the view of an RDF naif), DOIs and LSIDs both seek to fulfill the role one would expect to be played by URIs in the STM l

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-18 Thread John Madden
Alan et al, Wow, great topic. I'll need to get my thoughts together on this. Meanwhile, operationally what a uri "means" is clearly related to the question of its (non)persistence. I recently found a wonderful historical review of this topic from the point of view of a library scientist.

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-18 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
[It was on this list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public- semweb-lifesci/2006Jun/0149] -Alan' On Jun 18, 2006, at 12:20 PM, John Madden wrote: I can't locate the beginning of this thread. Did the discussion start on another list? Thanks. John On Jun 17, 2006, at 1708, Eric Neuman

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-18 Thread John Madden
I can't locate the beginning of this thread. Did the discussion start on another list? Thanks. John On Jun 17, 2006, at 1708, Eric Neumann wrote: This is a very useful and important discussion thread, and I would like to see others on the list to contribute their thoughts/ concerns as

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-18 Thread Sean Martin
Eric Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/17/2006 12:33:25 PM: > May I ask all the contributors to include HTML links to any acronyms > they reference (e.g., NAPTR)? This will make it easier for the rest of > us to catch up quickly, and to eventually collect the approaches out > there into

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-17 Thread Eric Neumann
This is a very useful and important discussion thread, and I would like to see others on the list to contribute their thoughts/concerns as well. May I ask all the contributors to include HTML links to any acronyms they reference (e.g., NAPTR)? This will make it easier for the rest of us to

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-16 Thread Sean Martin
MW> MW> I believe this SRV-redirection behaviour is part of the LSID spec, and MW> we use it for all of the BioMOBY LSIDs... MW> It also uses NAPTR's as described in IETF RFC's 3401->3405 to traverse the URN namespace, allowing the dereferencing process to bridge the gap that separates authorit

Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

2006-06-16 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:41 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > something, but as far as I can see, the only authority related to > namespaces in URLs is the DNS, and while there is the SRV field which > might be used to direct someone to information about the namespace, I > don't know whether