So it sounds more feasible than I thought. Good to know, thanks! Richard
On 18 Feb 2008, at 16:59, KANZAKI Masahide wrote: > Hi Richard, > > 2008/2/19, Richard Cyganiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I think this is a good reason for DBpedia to also stick with %- >> encoded >> URIs, because there is some value in the direct correspondence >> between >> Wikipedia URIs and DBpedia URIs, just replace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >> with http://dbpedia.org/resource/ and it will work. > > I don't agree, but this should be another topic (it may go too > long ;-) > > >> If you serialize a document with Japanese chars in class or property >> URIs as RDF/XML, how do the characters show up in XML element names? >> Do they really show up as Japanese characters in the XML names? > > Yes. We can use Japanese characters in XML names, i.e. element names > and attribute names without any problems. > >> Are there examples of RDF vocabularies or ontologies that have >> Japanese characters in URIs? This would be useful for testing >> purposes. > > I publish a few vocabularies that include Japanese names as properties > (eg.[1], though I don't see much instances suitable for test, since > people tend to use its English-named properties). > >> In your experience, does QName expansion usually work with Japanese >> characters? One of the main attractions with allowing i18n chars in >> URIs would probably be that you could write SPARQL queries like this: >> >> SELECT * WHERE { people:神崎正英 foaf:interest ?interest . } >> >> Does something like that work in practice? > > Yes, no problem. I prepared a small example on my site that includes > one property "名前" (which means "name" in English). Try the > following > SPARQL, and you will get the result > ?nick "masaka". > > PREFIX ex: <http://example.org/i18n#> > PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> > SELECT ?nick > FROM <http://www.kanzaki.com/works/2008/misc/0218-i18n.rdf> > WHERE { > ?who ex:名前 "神崎正英"; foaf:nick ?nick. > } > > cheers, > > [1] http://purl.org/net/ns/doas > > -- > @prefix : <http://www.kanzaki.com/ns/sig#> . <> :from [:name > "KANZAKI Masahide"; :nick "masaka"; :email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"]. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
