[oslc-core] Local Resources not in Core? Re: common properties creator and contributor

[Dave]

I'm sorry Nick, I did not read your email closely enough. Local
resources and Inline representations are already in the spec and why
you were questioning is the value-type for the creator property-value.

I believe the change to dcterms:creator and dcterms:contributor was
accidental and they should change back to value-type Local Resource.

Thanks,
- Dave




On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dave <snoopdave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Nick Crossley <ncrossley at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a related question on the same property.  In earlier versions of
>> the core spec, the creator and similar resources were defined to be of type
>> 'Resource or Local Inline Resource'.  In the tidying up of that terminology,
>> the definition is now type=Resource, with representation=either.  However,
>> this is not quite the same: the new spec does not seem to permit a local
>> resource, and requires the foaf resource to be gettable.  Was this a
>> deliberate change, or accidental?  What are the implications of requiring
>> the creator and related person attributes to be gettable resources?  For
>> example, is it required that the 'same' person used in two different service
>> providers must have the same URI?  What does the 'same' person mean?
>> Personally, I would strongly prefer that providers be allowed to return
>> local resources for foaf:Person or similar resources, avoiding any
>> requirement that such things are persistent gettable resources.
>
> I don't believe we ever had consensus to remove the notion of local
> resources from the Core.
> I believe what we wanted are two value types for resources:
>   1) Resource
>   2) Local Resource
>   3) Either
> And two representation types:
>    1) Reference
>    2) Inline
>    3) Either
> I consider this to be a correction in the spec and would like to get it in
> ASAP.
> Thoughts?
> Thanks,
> - Dave
>
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