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SEMIC style guide to create reusable vocabularies and application profiles
https://semiceu.github.io/style-guide/
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URI vs IRI #21

Closed skodapetr closed 1 year ago

skodapetr commented 1 year ago

Rule Acronym: PC-R5 states: Any URI identifiable resource devised in a data specification shall be dereferenceable. Later there is Dereferencing means that one can use the URI as an URL to retrieve related information back.

Why not require use of URL in the first place? Is this done so IRIs are not used to identify resources?

jakubklimek commented 1 year ago

There are suggestions that non-ascii characters should not be used. This is fine since the names of things are in English. Still, I would like to see IRI instead of URI everywhere for multiple reasons.

  1. RDF since 1.1, used heavily throughout the EU Vocabularies, is based on IRIs
  2. If any EU country would like to reuse the style guidelines, it is not reasonable to restrict them to US-ASCII URIs only. For example in Czechia, we use IRIs (with unicode characters) quite extensively, for good reasons.
costezki commented 1 year ago

Thank you, Jakub, for pointing this out. After discussions, we have concluded that relying on URIs specifically, not IRIs facilitates to a larger degree the interoperability and reuse. please refer to: CMC-R3 CMC-R4 GC-R4