You can check some of our recommendations that we have collected at the Semantic Web Museum focus group:
http://semuse.org/index.php?title=URI With regards to URI naming conventions I agree with Max that we will see a long tail effect on the Web. I don't see this as an issue as we can deal with it on the RDF level. Marco On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:32 AM, martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I think the whole stuff virtually "cries out" for a working group topic > for CIDOC. Again the libraries seem to are more conscious about identity > than the museum people, following Joerns message. > > I wonder if we have really all understood the relevance of the issue. > I wonder why the SEmantic web community has not dealt with it either.... > > Best, > > Martin > > Joern Sieglerschmidt wrote: >> Dear all, >> the problem of URN, URI, GUID (generally PI) was discussed in an EU >> project proposal PICCS and will be discussed for the coming German >> Digital Library. Not very familiar with all the RDF, OWL, etc. stuff I >> would prefer a GUID based on a institutional acronym (could be integers) >> and a country code + character set (either the institutional >> identification number or a set of integers). The problem is that there >> must be an administrative effort to guarantee the uniqueness of the >> first component. The rest is up to the institution. There exists neither >> in Germany nor in the EU an institution covering all ch domains and >> organizing this administrative effort. The German National library >> provide the uniqueness of the URN for German libraries. Other ch >> institutions are not covered. >> Joern >> >> martin schrieb: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I suggest to discuss in more details policies to use URIs in RDF or >>> OWL instances. >>> >>> For instance, how to describe a museum: >>> >>> How to distinguish the Website from the Actor, if we refer to the >>> museums domain name: >>> MUSEUM/http://www.gnm.de/ ? >>> >>> http://www.gnm.de/MUSEUM ? >>> http://www.gnm.de/ACTOR? >>> >>> If we have a museum URI, we could generate all object IDs by inventory >>> number + museum URL: >>> >>> http://www.gnm.de/OBJECT/AB_45678900_1870 ? >>> http://www.gnm.de/PHYSICAL_OBJECT/... ? >>> http://www.gnm.de/CRM_E19/... ? >>> >>> Does anyone know, if the Getty ULAN suggests a good practice for URIs >>> for ULAN entries? >>> >>> I believe these are issues that should be easy to resolve, and should >>> be quickly resolved. >>> >>> More complicated: How to you make a URI out of an postal address. Any >>> idea, examples??? >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Martin >> >> > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | > Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | > | Email: [email protected] | > | > Center for Cultural Informatics | > Information Systems Laboratory | > Institute of Computer Science | > Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | > | > Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | > | > Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig >
