[oslc-core] Some Topics for Discussion Today

[Arthur Ryman]

1. I've been digging deeper into OWL and there does appear to be a way to 
express the kind of information we are putting in our Shape resources, 
e.g. cardinality. The OWL way is somewhat more complex - it involves class 
restrictions. Our Shape approach is easier for clients to handle. I think 
we should at least describe the semantics of Shape in terms of OWL so we 
are compatible. We may be able to regard Shape as a simplified form for 
the equivalent OWL.

2. Our use of Dublin Core namespace prefixes seems a little inconsistent 
with common practice. We are using the newer terms namespace, 
http://purl.org/dc/terms/ instead of the legacy elements namespace
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/. However, the usual prefix for the terms 
namespace seems to be dcterms: while the elements namespace uses dc:.  I 
suggest we adopt this convention and use dcterms: as the predefined and 
recommended prefix. See [1]

"So as not to affect the conformance of existing implementations of 
"simple Dublin Core" in RDF, domains and ranges have not been specified 
for the fifteen properties of the dc: namespace 
(http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/). Rather, fifteen new properties with 
"names" identical to those of DCMES Version 1.1 have been created in the 
dcterms: namespace (http://purl.org/dc/terms/). "

3. I think we should establish or identify a best practice for services 
that provide access to resources through both http and https. In this 
case, the same resource is being made available at two different URLs. The 
resource should have one preferred URI which appears in the resource 
representations, is used for links, etc. If we don't establish a preferred 
URI then queries, etc. could get complex. Anyone have experience with this 
situation?

[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

Regards, 
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Arthur Ryman, PhD, DE


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