UAT in VOResource

[Laurent MICHEL]

Le 28/05/2020 à 08:47, Markus Demleitner a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Baptiste Cecconi wrote:
>> good to see this going forward. I've recently explored a bit the
>> usage of the UAT while making up Datacite metadata for data
>> collection DOIs at PADC.
>> The Datacite model implements a valueURI, and schemeURI and a
>> value. Exemples:
>>
>> <subject valueURI="http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1338" schemeURI="http://astrothesaurus.org">Radio astronomy</subject>
>> <subject valueURI="http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1426" schemeURI="http://astrothesaurus.org">Saturn</subject>
>>
>> The good thing with this is that I can refer to another thesaurus
>> or another URI for terms I can't find in the UAT (for instance, the
>> name of the space mission).
> 
> Yes -- full RDF clearly is a good idea, and that is why we offer our
> vocabularies in standard RDF (XML and turtle).  However, if you want
> to do anything interesting with this (starting with comparing terms;
> URI equality is a hairy topic), using full URIs becomes really
> complex rather fast, and then you really need specialised libraries,
> and that I'd like to avoid for the basic use cases.  Most of the
> clients that hopefully will take that up are totally disinterested in
> semantics as such, and convincing them to pull aboard a hefty
> dependency just to deal with a few keywords at least in the past
> hasn't worked.
> 


To my knowledge, there's no other vocabularies identifiers than URIs. 
I'm affraid that the option is either using URIs or not using non-VO 
vocabularies?
Is that what you are suggesting?

Laurent
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