[tdwg-content] resolvable URIs

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at duke.edu
Sat Jun 6 02:26:45 CEST 2009


Thanks for your prompt response, John. This issue doesn't seem to fall  
into one of the three mentioned categories, so I added it as a "task"  
to the issue queue.

	-hilmar

On Jun 5, 2009, at 6:37 PM, John R. WIECZOREK wrote:

> Hi Hilmar,
>
> That's a good point. The preferred procedure to post potential issues
> is described in the following page:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/SubmittingIssues
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Hilmar Lapp<hlapp at duke.edu> wrote:
>> Right now the DwC Terms RDF download at http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/rdf/dwcterms.rdf
>>  sets the namespace URI to http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ and doesn't
>> seem to otherwise mention the download URI.
>>
>> I may be missing something, but doesn't that mean that DwC Terms
>> referenced in RDF documents using the canonical namespace URI (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
>> ) can't be resolved?
>>
>> I guess at present that doesn't matter too much as there isn't really
>> anything in the DwC Terms ontology that would tell a client agent
>> something about the term that it wouldn't already know. But it's  
>> maybe
>> worth noting that that's different from other well-known  
>> vocabularies.
>> For example, the canonical URI for DC Terms (http://purl.org/dc/
>> terms/) resolves to the RDF for the whole vocabulary.
>>
>> (BTW I'm not sure this is the right list to post DwC questions/issues
>> to - let me know if it's not and where to send instead)
>>
>>        -hilmar
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