Re: [office-metadata] Question about the IRI of a RDF subject from an ODF document

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:

>> Might be nice if we could add the ability to have both a path and  
>> a global IRI in the manifest entry for a file.
>>
> I agree with you.
> We might use owl:sameAs to make clear that both subjects are the same.

That's indeed one option, though I was thinking something more like:

<manifest:file-entry manifest:file-path="foo.jog"  
manifest:uri="flickr.com/doe/1"/>

... where the URI would be used as subject if present.

> On the other hand, from the RDF user perspective it would be only  
> good to use the local URL if someone wants to give information of  
> this certain instance of the image and the 'shared' flickr URL, if  
> meta data about the picture in general is provided, which is the  
> same for all copies.
> Otherwise - by using a local URL - the informations that are valid  
> for all image copies are hard to be linked.

Yes, in general it's better to use globally unique and stable URIs  
for resources.

Bruce