Where caBIG is a unique identifier for an object type. Unfortunately, that means you can possibly name an instance of two different object types the same thing. Or that you can't name them the same, depending on how the validation happens (and you should be able to have group caBIG and category caBIG).
Better would be something like this:
http://data.bioontology.org/metadata/group/caBIG
Where group is the model name
Alternatively, we could name to match the REST URL:
Resource ids look like this:
Where
caBIGis a unique identifier for an object type. Unfortunately, that means you can possibly name an instance of two different object types the same thing. Or that you can't name them the same, depending on how the validation happens (and you should be able to have group caBIG and category caBIG).Better would be something like this:
Where
groupis the model nameAlternatively, we could name to match the REST URL:
Note: this would require pluralizing model names