purl, vocabularies and ivoa.net

[Gray, Alasdair J G]

Hi Markus,

On 1 Jun 2017, at 16:45, Markus Demleitner <msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de>> wrote:

Hi Alasdair,

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 08:03:18AM +0000, Gray, Alasdair J G wrote:
I completely agree with the idea of having a high-level directory
like vocabularies. However, after that should we not use content
negotiation to request the specific format that we are interested.
The metadata about the vocabulary (reproduced in a human readable
form on the HTML page), could inform clients what formats are
available.

...except that these clients would then need to parse the HTML.
Which, at least given RDFa, is certainly doable without bad hacks.

Sorry that I did not make it explicit that such an index page would also have machine versions, or at least embedded markup. The intent is that it would be for both machines and humans and act as a registry page above all of the individual vocabularies.

But what's the rationale of discarding what seems to me (disclaimer:
I'm just a casual visitor to the semantic web) the recommended (and
sensible) way to publish vocabularies?  And how would you deal with
versioning?

I would follow the best practice document that was circulated previously on the list.

Alasdair

    -- Markus


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