ISSUE-103

Last Call Comment: a URI-centric approach to CURIEs

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDFa

Raised by:

Ben Adida

Opened on:

2008-04-03

Description:

brought up by Jonathan Rees in [1]:

"""
Hal Abelson of MIT pointed out to me that the [...] syntax
    effectively introduces a new kind of URI - it extends the URI space.
    However, we already have a standard way to extend the URI space,
    namely the creation of new URI schemes.  Did you consider doing this
    (curie:prefix:suffix or cu:prefix:suffix or ...)?  It would have
    some advantages over [...]:

    . it would eliminate the need for a new URIor[safe]CURIE datatype
      since you could just use URI

    . it would protect against possible conflicting future extensions of
      the URI space that include [...]

    . it would avoid ambiguity with relative URIrefs that happen to be
      spelled [...]

    . it would avoid setting a precedent; by introducing [...] you
      pave the way for other notations that extend URI syntax in other
      ways, e.g. {...}, <...>

    I know this makes the mapping of the lexical space to the value
    space for the URI datatype context-sensitive (in the same way that
    the mapping for URIor[safe]CURIE is).  I haven't worked through the
    implications of this.
"""

This requires further discussion.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Mar/0294.html

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-103: Last Call Comment: a URI-centric approach to CURIEs (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-04-03)
2. meeting record: 2008-05-29 RDF-in-XHTML Task Force (from swick@w3.org on 2008-05-29)

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