Randomness is a red herring here, possibliy being confused with meanginless URIs (e.g. numerical ones) that may appear random, but the real issue is separating the id from the name, as Glenn says below.
Michael On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:14 PM, glenn mcdonald <[email protected]> wrote: > But this does not meet Glenn's call for randomness I believe. > > > I didn't call for randomness, just for clean separation of the machine > identifiers from the human names. > > >> Furthermore the OBI URIs are resolvable (thank you! very much appropriated >> :-), something that Glenn currently does not consider for his >> implementations but that's a separate conversation. > > > We're not really talking about my system, which isn't implemented in RDF, > but even if we were, my "identifiers" are local/relative IDs, so combined > with a base URI they're totally "resolvable". > > glenn > -- Michael Uschold, PhD Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts LinkedIn: http://tr.im/limfu Skype, Twitter: UscholdM
