I was looking for an IRI validator and this one didn't come up in the
search engines. This service might need a bit more visibility and some
incoming links.

Marco

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 1:34 PM Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 24/11/2023 10:05, Marco Neumann wrote:
> > (side note) preferably the local name of a URI should not start with a
> > number but a letter or underscore.
>
> It's a hangover from XML QNames.
>
> Turtle doesn't care.
>
> Style-wise, yes, avoid an initial number.
>
> > What do you mean by human-readable here? For large technical systems it's
> > simply not feasible to encode meaning into the URI and I might even
> > consider it an anti-pattern.
> >
> > There are some community efforts that have introduced single letters and
> > number sequences for vocabulary development like CIDOC CRM which was
> later
> > also adopted by community projects like wikidata. But instance data
> > typically doesn't have that requirement and can be random but has to be
> > syntax compliant of course.
> >
> > I am sure Andy can elaborate on the details of the encoding here.
>
> There's an online IRI validator.
>
> https://sparql.org/iri-validator.html
>
> using the jena-iri package.
>


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