Cool URIs for the Semantic Web

[Norman Gray]

Tony and all:

On 2007 Mar 7 , at 14.04, Tony Linde wrote:

> Interesting article:
>   http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2006/11/cooluris/

Looks like good stuff.  Leo's remarks here partly echo the W3C `Best  
Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies' [1] and he makes  
reference to another old document `URNs, Namespaces and  
Registries' [2], which

     ``...addresses the questions "When should URNs or URIs with  
novel URI schemes be used to name information resources for the Web?"  
and "Should registries be provided for such identifiers?". The  
answers given are "Rarely if ever" and "Probably not". Common  
arguments in favor of such novel naming schemas are examined, and  
their properties compared with those of the existing http: URI scheme.''

...which seems rather topical, despite being from 2001!

It also chimes with my UTypes and URIs note [3], which I'm planning  
to talk about at the Munich VOTech meeting (summary: UTypes can be  
cool URIs, too [4]).

See you,

Norman


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/URNsAndRegistries-50
[3] http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/utype-uri.html
[4] I agonised about this remark, since in any message which didn't  
include Tony's link, the phrase `cool URIs' is almost overwhelmingly  
nauseating (get me my yellow spectacles)

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