Linking to Ontology Files

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Hi Chet,

Something that came up in discussion at our
last ODF TC call, in response to a note on the comment list.

Take a look at ODF 1.2 Part 1, the cover
sheet, in the "Declared XML namespaces" block:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/OpenDocument-v1.2-part1.html

There is a hyperlink for http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/office/1.2/meta/odf#
that does not resolve.

The W3C in their "Best Practice Recipes
for Publishing RDF Vocabularies" (http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/
) says:

<quote>
Minimum Requirements
M1. The 'authoritative' RDF description of a vocabulary, class, or property
denoted by an HTTP URI can be obtained by dereferencing the URI of that
vocabulary, class, or property.
</quote> 

So, by that recommendation the namespace
URI should resolve to the approved OWL ontology file:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-metadata.owl

There is a parallel issue on the cover ODF
1.2 Part 3.

What's the OASIS practice for this?

-Rob