Kingsley,
What I wanted to say is that the existing system for registration of domain names can be also efficiently used
to
initiate well defined task sharing in the definition of a global vocabulary for the semantic web, using a
simple standard as proposed in my initial email of today.
If there is no explicit official standard and recommendation for such global
task sharing, there is the
danger that those who need a special vocabulary develop many incompatible
standards for exchange of machine
readable data.
The earlier such a standard for well defined task sharing is recommended by
W3C, the easier it can be
introduced.
Wolfgang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kingsley Idehen" <[email protected]>
To: "Wolfgang Orthuber" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Li Ding" <[email protected]>; "Linked Data community" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Owning URIs (Was: Yet Another LOD cloud browser)
Wolfgang Orthuber wrote:
It is important to track the ownership (further provenance) of the
description of URI. we may want to know who published the definition,
and where the definition is copied from. Being able to connect RDF
triples with authors is an important step towards the social semantic
web.
In my proposal the name of the defining domain is included in the URI. It
determines the decisive
definition.
Responsible is the owner of the defining domain.
Wolfgang
Wolfgang,
A URL is a URI. It identifies an address.
A URI embodies URLs and URNs.
You can refer to things using HTTP URIs or URNs.
You can refer to things and resolve descriptions of said things via HTTP URIs.
In all cases, URIs inherently posses domain ownership implications via the
"authority" component.
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
