ISSUE-15: RESOLVED: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI
ontology names
RESOLVED: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Raised by:
- Jeremy Carroll
- Opened on:
- 2007-10-24
- Description:
- Reported by jlc415, Jun 11, 2007
The current specification *requires* that each ontology include a URI.
The ability to specify an ontology URI (along the lines of setting a "base" in xml or html files) can be
useful, but is completely inappropriate in many settings: the identifier for an ontology which does
not declare a URI should be inferred from other information (such as its location).
Duplicating an ontology with a URI requires editing the file itself, which disallows use of OWL files
with most systems providing automatic maintenance of different versions of the same file. For
example, it would be valuable to be able to check OWL into a CVS, subversion, or GIT repository and
then link to either the head of a particular branch or to a specific version, where these different
versions are served on the web from URIs automatically assigned by the version control system. If
the ontology includes a URI this is not possible.
As a fix, I propose making the URI of an ontology optional.
- Related Actions Items:
ACTION-41 on Boris Motik to Imports proposal 3 - due 2007-12-20, closedACTION-38 on Bijan Parsia to Imports scenarios - due 2008-01-08, closed- Related emails:
- proposed response to LC comment 7 (from pfps@research.bell-labs.com on 2009-02-12)
- Re: Ontology locations: OntologyURI vs. xml:base and namespaces (ISSUE-21) (from hoekstra@uva.nl on 2008-05-21)
- RE: Ontology locations: OntologyURI vs. xml:base and namespaces (ISSUE-21) (from boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk on 2008-05-21)
- Re: Ontology locations: OntologyURI vs. xml:base and namespaces (ISSUE-21) (from hoekstra@uva.nl on 2008-05-21)
- RE: Ontology locations: OntologyURI vs. xml:base and namespaces (ISSUE-21) (from boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk on 2008-05-21)
- Ontology locations: OntologyURI vs. xml:base and namespaces (ISSUE-21) (from hoekstra@uva.nl on 2008-05-19)
- Re: ISSUE-15: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI (from pfps@research.bell-labs.com on 2008-03-15)
- Re: ISSUE-15: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI (from pfps@research.bell-labs.com on 2008-01-23)
- ISSUE-15: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI (from pfps@research.bell-labs.com on 2008-01-07)
- Re: ISSUE-15 (ontology names): REPORTED: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI (from hoekstra@uva.nl on 2007-11-07)
- Re: ISSUE-15 (ontology names): REPORTED: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI (from hoekstra@uva.nl on 2007-11-07)
- ISSUE-15 (ontology names): REPORTED: Ontologies should not be required to include a URI (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-10-24)
Related notes:
Relaxing the URI on Ont Element constraint would be a satisfactory solution to Matthew Pocok's issue raised in:
<http://www.w3.org/mid/200710311232.31360.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>
Acceptibiilty of solution confirmed:
<http://www.w3.org/mid/200711051043.51046.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>
Correct links:
Relaxing the URI on Ont Element constraint would be a satisfactory solution to Matthew Pocok's issue raised in:
http://www.w3.org/mid/200710311232.31360.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk
Acceptibiilty of solution confirmed:
http://www.w3.org/mid/200711051043.51046.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk [Bijan Parsia]
Correct links:
Relaxing the URI on Ont Element constraint would be a satisfactory solution to Matthew Pocok's issue raised in:
http://www.w3.org/mid/200710311232.31360.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk
Acceptibiilty of solution confirmed:
http://www.w3.org/mid/200711051043.51046.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk [Bijan Parsia]
Changes to RDF mapping:
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Mapping_to_RDF_Graphs&oldid=3136
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Mapping_to_RDF_Graphs&oldid=3137
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Mapping_to_RDF_Graphs&oldid=3138
Change to Syntax:
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Syntax&oldid=3139
- still needs on diagram changed
Change to diagram and associated text in Syntax:
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Syntax&oldid=3218
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/images/archive/9/9b/20080130112505%21Ontology.gif
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