CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Future Television: Making Television Integrated and Interactive

2012-02-17 Thread Raphaël Troncy
3rd International Workshop on Future Television: Making Television Integrated and Interactive (FutureTV 2012) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/FutureTV2012/ Full day workshop at the 10th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV 2012), Berlin, Germany, on July 4th, 2012 *Important Dates* Paper

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread M. Scott Marshall
Hi Bernard, Gerard, (and now Lars), Thanks for the pointers. It seems like we are better off pointing directly to lexvo if we want URIs that will 1) enable us to precisely and unambiguously refer to any official language (including, for example, Cantonese) 2) provide the name of the language in

CfP: Semantic Interoperability in Medical Informatics (SIMI2012) workshop in conjunction with ESWC 2012

2012-02-17 Thread Vassiliki Andronikou
** C A L L F O R P A P E R S SIMI2012 Semantic Interoperability in Medical Informatics May 27, 2012 in Heraklion (Crete), Greece http://grid.ece.ntua.gr/sites/simi2012/ Held in conjunction with ESWC 2012 http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/ - FOCUS -

Re: [HTTP-range-14] Re Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs)

2012-02-17 Thread Yang Squared
Hi Sebastian, I think I gave you wrong information in my previous email. I just checked the 300 status code again, it says that The requested resource corresponds to any one of a set of representations. The implicit meaning of this status code is that the request resource is an information

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi all I wanted to answer Gerard yesterday but some parts of the answer have already been addressed by Lars Marius, whom I'm happy to read here, and even happier to see we agree, given taht in the past we sometimes agreed to disagree on those tricky issues of identification and URIs (... and no

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program
Useful sites for linguistics which deal with all general and specific issues of the use of IT in human languages: www.clarin.eu, www.linguistlist.org and www.sil.org. You may also want to think about open archive and repository library standards for representing human language descriptors.

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
Hi Bernard, * Bernard Vatant I think now we should forget about URIs published by pionneer projects such as OASIS TC, lingvoj.org and lexvo.org, and stick to URIs published by genuine authority Library of Congress which is as close to the primary source as can be. So if you want to use a

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread Sebastian Nordhoff
For English and Spanish, the ISO codes should work well. Depending on the level of granularity you require for Arabic, the codes provided might not be enough. Next week, we well release Glottolog/Langdoc[1], which will provide information about 104k 'languoids' (languages, dialects,

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread Gannon Dick
If only they could do ISO 3166 countries as well... == I imagine if I lived on Bouvet I'd think so too.  It gets second billing :o) I used the URN LEX identifiers for ISO 3166.  This syntax is extensible to national regions.  Like Norway and Bouvet, the US has

CfP: WoMO 2012 - 6th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies

2012-02-17 Thread Jie Bao
6th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Graz, Austria, July 24, 2012 held in conjunction with FOIS 2012 --- First Call for Papers ---

PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Hugh Glaser
(Sorry if there is a paper/discussion on this that I have missed somewhere. And I may have some of this wrong, as I have essentially not used PURLs.) M Scott Marshall and others' comments have prompted me to put pen to paper and ask what the list thinks on this. It has long puzzled me why

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread David Booth
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:48 +, Hugh Glaser wrote: [ . . . ] What happens if I have http://purl.org/dbpedia/Tokyo, which is set to go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tokyo? I have (a), (b) and (c) as before. Now if dbpedia.org goes Phut!, we are in exactly the same situation - (b) gets

RE: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Young,Jeff (OR)
Hugh, I commonly use PURLs when I'm modeling RDF vocabularies as described here: http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/#purls This allows me to prototype the vocabulary on my workstation without concern for where it ultimately ends up. Any instance data I generate along the way will remain

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 17 Feb 2012, at 19:18, David Booth wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:48 +, Hugh Glaser wrote: [ . . . ] What happens if I have http://purl.org/dbpedia/Tokyo, which is set to go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tokyo? I have (a), (b) and (c) as before. Now if dbpedia.org goes Phut!, we

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Jeff, On 17 Feb 2012, at 19:24, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote: Hugh, I commonly use PURLs when I'm modeling RDF vocabularies as described here: http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/#purls (Yes, I was avoiding commenting on the 302 problem. :-) ) This allows me to prototype the vocabulary on

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Hugh, I can only speak for one case, some PURLs I have maintained for the last 5 years - the Personally Identifiable Information Namespace http://purl.org/pii/terms/# There are 16 terms.  The use for the terms is in discovery, as a penultimate node to rdf:nil in Lists and Collections.

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 2/17/12 1:48 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: (Sorry if there is a paper/discussion on this that I have missed somewhere. And I may have some of this wrong, as I have essentially not used PURLs.) M Scott Marshall and others' comments have prompted me to put pen to paper and ask what the list thinks

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 2/17/12 2:18 PM, David Booth wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:48 +, Hugh Glaser wrote: [ . . . ] What happens if I have http://purl.org/dbpedia/Tokyo, which is set to go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tokyo? I have (a), (b) and (c) as before. Now if dbpedia.org goes Phut!, we are in

[http-range14] Definition of the Dereferencing URI

2012-02-17 Thread Yang Squared
Hi all, I am writing a paper and I would like to define the meaning of the Dereferencing URI on the Web. When resolve a URI on the traditional Web, we retrieve a document representation of the resource with status code 200OK, means we resolve the URI successfully. On the Semantic Web, when

Re: [http-range14] Definition of the Dereferencing URI

2012-02-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 2/17/12 5:37 PM, Yang Squared wrote: Hi all, I am writing a paper and I would like to define the meaning of the Dereferencing URI on the Web. When resolve a URI on the traditional Web, we retrieve a document representation of the resource with status code 200OK, means we resolve the URI

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread M. Scott Marshall
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: On 17 Feb 2012, at 19:18, David Booth wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:48 +, Hugh Glaser wrote: [ . . . ] What happens if I have http://purl.org/dbpedia/Tokyo, which is set to go to

Re: [http-range14] how to publish RDF for Information Resources

2012-02-17 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 17. February 2012 02.19.15 Yang Squared wrote: Hi all, I have an Web architecture question here. Assume I have a information resource URI http://example.com/homepage.html I would like to publish a RDF metadata (http://example.com/data/homepagerdf) about this information

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread Hugh Glaser
Many thanks Scott. I hope you realised that I didn't want to imply you were describing any particular scenario with respect to PURL - it was more your comments sparked something off for me. And thank you for your late-night efforts to describe the SharedNames scenario! It is very helpful; I had

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread David Wood
Hi Hugh, There are several aspects to PURLs that I think are relevant to LOD. Some of them are: - PURLs allow a general Web user to curate the location of a persistent identifier without needing administrative access to a DNS server, an Apache server or other non-user-oriented technology.

Re: URIs for languages

2012-02-17 Thread Gerard de Melo
Hi Bernard, Scott, others, Bernard Vatant wrote: For the first point I guess if LoC is not able to ensure stable URIs inside its DNS, who will? And both from a social (trust) point of view and technical one, I prefer to have URIs in the id.loc.gov http://id.loc.gov namespace than in some more