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Decide on format for MIxS URIs - unique IDs #5

Closed ramonawalls closed 4 years ago

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

Once namespace issue #2 is resolved, we need to decide if the unique part of each identifier should be an opaque string or meaningful, i.e.., should we use URIs like

https://w3id.org/gensc.org/terms/MIXS_000001 or https://w3id.org/gensc.org/terms/MIXS_depth?

Should the prefix be MIXS, MIxS, or mixs?

jdeck88 commented 4 years ago

I see the opaque identifiers as benefitting terms that have some kind of built-in logical entailments... However, since these URLs are pointing exclusively to data properties i think using transparent IDs would be fine here, and we get the added benefit of broader adoption and direct use of these URLs by the community... i think this is something that has helped Darwin Core get broader adoption and recognition.

ramonawalls commented 4 years ago

We discussed this at the CIG call today, and decided that it was best to use opaque identifiers. We can still main a mapping to term labels, so people don't have to look at the URIs in, e.g., spreadsheets.