Re: [office-metadata] Atom and document/feed IRIs

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Svante,

Svante Schubert wrote:

> Patrick Durusau wrote:
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>> I remember in the newsgroup days that all messages had unique IDs 
>> (well, sort of, they were actually recycled after several years) 
>> which is how they did threading.
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>> I am definitely leaning towards the IRI approach, mostly because it 
>> makes the subject stable.
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> If we find in a RDF/XML an IRI, how do we know that it is describing 
> an ODF element in our own package and not something else somewhere 
> else in the world?
> How is the connection to the ODF element in the document being made?
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> On first sight it seemed to me easier to put generated IRI on every 
> ODF element, 

Hmmm, would you autogenerate on the off chance that I might want to 
attach metadata do an ODF element?

> on the second I prefer again the xml:id approach, as one element in 
> one certain document is being described.
> If the document is renamed, moved, transformed to another data 
> representation or copied, the metadata always describes the new entity 
> of element in the ODF document, so the subject naturally changes as 
> well. It rather improves consistency as the subject should represent 
> an unique entity (odf element), otherwise owl:sameAs should be used.
>
Sorry, that went by a little fast.

I thought we were talking about assigning IRIs to identify documents? 
Rather than path statements.

Seems like you are talking about another issue. Yes?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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