ISSUE-39: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals

rdfa term mapping triples

Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals

State:

CLOSED

Product:

RDFa 1.1 Core

Raised by:

Manu Sporny

Opened on:

2010-08-05

Description:

From Richard Cyganiak:

This is a comment on Profiles in the latest RDFa WD [1]. The draft provides a mechanism for establishing term mappings using RDF triples of the following general shape:

?x rdfa:term "name" .
?x rdfa:uri "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" .

I ask that the mechanism be changed to the following form:

<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> rdfa:term "name" .

This change should be made for the following reasons:

1. Conciseness. If one triple is enough to say it, there should be one triple.

2. Putting URIs into RDF literals is almost always an anti-pattern.

3. The principle of least surprise.

4. Using a URI simplifies the creation of self-contained profiles that contain a set of term mappings along with labels for the classes and properties, mappings to other vocabularies, presentation hints etc.

5. Using a URI simplifies the extension of existing RDF Schema documents (e.g., the RDF version of the FOAF spec) to RDFa profiles.

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1. Re: RDFa Core Last Call telecon notes (from Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl on 2010-10-21)
2. RDFa Core Last Call telecon notes (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-20)
3. PROPOSAL #2 to close ISSUE-39: rdfa term mapping triples (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-18)
4. Telecon Agenda - October 21st 2010, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-18)
5. Re: Telecon Agenda - October 14th 2010, 1400 UTC (from Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl on 2010-10-14)
6. RE: Telecon Agenda - October 14th 2010, 1400 UTC (from benjamin.adrian@dfki.de on 2010-10-14)
7. Re: Telecon Agenda - October 14th 2010, 1400 UTC (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-10-14)
8. Re: Telecon Agenda - October 14th 2010, 1400 UTC (from knud.moeller@deri.org on 2010-10-14)
9. Telecon Agenda - October 14th 2010, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-11)
10. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-10-06)
11. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-10-05)
12. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from tai@g5n.co.uk on 2010-10-05)
13. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from nathan@webr3.org on 2010-10-05)
14. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from shane@aptest.com on 2010-10-05)
15. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-10-05)
16. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-10-05)
17. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from shane@aptest.com on 2010-10-05)
18. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from tai@g5n.co.uk on 2010-10-05)
19. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-10-05)
20. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-10-04)
21. Why RDFa profiles should be expressed in RDF (from richard@cyganiak.de on 2010-10-04)
22. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-10-04)
23. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-03)
24. Re: PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-10-03)
25. PROPOSAL to close ISSUE-39: RDFa term mapping triples (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-10-03)
26. Telecon Agenda - September 9th 2010, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2010-09-08)
27. Re: Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-26)
28. Re: Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-25)
29. Re: Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-24)
30. Re: Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-24)
31. Re: Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-23)
32. Re: Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-23)
33. Format of @profile files (summarizing ISSUE-39, maybe moving forward...) (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-23)
34. Re: further on ISSUE-39 (from shane@aptest.com on 2010-08-13)
35. Re: further on ISSUE-39 (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-13)
36. Re: further on ISSUE-39 (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-13)
37. Re: further on ISSUE-39 (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-13)
38. Re: further on ISSUE-39 (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-13)
39. Re: Re: further on ISSUE-39 (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-13)
40. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-12)
41. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from asimong@gmail.com on 2010-08-12)
42. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-12)
43. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com on 2010-08-12)
44. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com on 2010-08-12)
45. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-08)
46. Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (ISSUE-39) (from richard.cyganiak@deri.org on 2010-08-07)
47. (Resending for tracker: ISSUE-39) Re: Comment on RDFa 1.1 Core: Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals (from ivan@w3.org on 2010-08-06)
48. ISSUE-39 (rdfa term mapping triples): Profiles, term mappings, and URIs as literals [RDFa 1.1 Core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-08-05)

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