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

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Ian,

Just a quick reply to welcome you to the group!

We are in the final drive towards a proposal and any assistance will be 
greatly appreciated.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

PS: You are aware that we have a teleconference call this morning at 11 
AM Eastern (US) time?

Ian Davis wrote:

> On 07/03/2007 14:53, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
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>> On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
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>>> Regarding unique identification of ODF documents, generating hash 
>>> value appear more consistent instead of IRIs.
>>> Would it not make more sense for us to use an IRI given from an RDF 
>>> application, like a Invoice IRI?
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>> No. The whole point of giving a document a URI -- whether in RDF or 
>> in Atom or whatever -- is to be able to identify it.
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>>> I say, leave the identification to the RDF application, which can 
>>> clarify what makes an ODF document unique in their eyes.
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>> It's not just RDF applications that can benefit from stable and 
>> unique IDs.
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> I agree here. It's pretty important for the document to be uniquely 
> identified and for that identifier to be consistent no matter what 
> application is using it. The identifier should be something that is 
> carried with the document and doesn't depend on its file location or 
> persistent state.
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> Ian
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> P.S. Brief intro since this is my first post here: I work in the 
> development group at Talis, a UK library systems provider. I have a 
> long history of RDF implementation experience have written an RDF 
> framework in .NET and am now responsible for deploying a large scale 
> semweb platform. I blog at http://iandavis.com/blog
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-- 
Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

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