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Ontologies should not be required to include a URI #33

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The current specification *requires* that each ontology include a URI.

The ability to specify an ontology URI (along the lines of setting a "base" in 
xml or html files) can be 
useful, but is completely inappropriate in many settings: the identifier for an 
ontology which does 
not declare a URI should be inferred from other information (such as its 
location).

Duplicating an ontology with a URI requires editing the file itself, which 
disallows use of OWL files 
with most systems providing automatic maintenance of different versions of the 
same file. For 
example, it would be valuable to be able to check OWL into a CVS, subversion, 
or GIT repository and 
then link to either the head of a particular branch or to a specific version, 
where these different 
versions are served on the web from URIs automatically assigned by the version 
control system. If 
the ontology includes a URI this is not possible.

As a fix, I propose making the URI of an ontology optional.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jlc...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2007 at 2:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by pfpschne...@gmail.com on 24 Oct 2007 at 9:11