Re: [office] Announcement of work on ODF 1.2 metadata feature adoptions

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

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Svante Schubert
<Svante.Schubert@sun.com> wrote:

> 3)
> The SWIG where rather puzzled by the usage of generated URNs in the ODF/RDF
> examples. The web lives from URLs, so will be the Semantic Web. Aside of
> this, there is a design rule in the "Architecture of the World Wide Web" not
> to create alias [6]. Everybody strongly suggested to use relative URLs
> within the package and to reference to the resources within the package with
> URLs.

Just to remind you of why we settled on the current (admittedly
imperfect) solution, the real issue here is what is the (stable and
global) URI for the document?  Semantic web people not surprisingly
tend to think in terms of the web, where a URI identifies a document
but then can also be used to access it. But we also have to consider
more traditional desktop use cases, where users commonly move and
rename files.

See our archived discussions.

I have no super strong opinion on this issue, but it's not an easy one.

Bruce