[Xesam] Link-by-id documentation and ontology patching

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2008/12/18 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> I have started to write up some proper documentation for link-by-id as
> discussed on the hackfest (it will land in
> http://xesam.org/main/XesamOntologyAbout when ready). To this end I came
> upon some stuff that needed updating in the onto. Please see the attached
> patch.
>
> What the proposed patch does:
>
>  * Document xesam:id and xesam:related as mandatedd by link-by-id
>
>  * Make xesam:contactMedium a child of xesam:id. This has pretty big
> consequences - like postal addresses, email addresses and what not to
> suddenly become ids. Nonetheless I think it is the right choice
>
>  * Make xesam:url a child of xesam:id
>
> Comments?
>

I have a comment for myself already :-)

While it might appear neat to have xesam:postalAddress as ids it also poses
some problems. Namely that I also write in the patch that ids should
generally be prefixed with an URI scheme (like http://, file:// or isbn://
etc). I would rather not have to write my postal address in an URI :-)

Obviously this needs a bit of thought...

-- 
Cheers,
Mikkel
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