[OTDev] rdf:about vs dc:identifier

Nina Jeliazkova nina at acad.bg
Tue Apr 27 13:59:49 CEST 2010


Martin Guetlein wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Could we agree on dropping dc:identifer and specify the object URI via
> rdf:about?
>
> I.e. use:
> <ot:Task rdf:about="http://example.org/task/xy"<http://194.141.0.136:8080/task/a06152b7-0689-436f-b2a9-07d0708277a1>
>   
>
> instead of
> <ot:Task>
>   <dc:identifier rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyURI">
> http://example.org/task/xy<http://194.141.0.136:8080/task/a06152b7-0689-436f-b2a9-07d0708277a1>
> </dc:identifier>
>
> Nina told me that she already voted for this some time ago. At the moment
> its inconsistently implemented across partner services, and the
> dc:identifier is still included in the API.
>
>   
It's the first note "Suggestions for new API" from Feb 7, 2010 at 
http://opentox.org/dev/apis/api-1.1

4)Remove dc:identifier from RDF representation of objects, use the
object URI as an identifier of the RDF node.

Regards,
Nina

> @Tobias:
> Sorry for asking you to add the dc:identifier to your service some days ago
> ;-)
>
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
>   




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