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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:07:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: Turning the schema into a keyword registry rather than using URIs
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Dan Brickley <dan...@danbri.org> wrote:

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> On 17 Jun 2010, at 21:56, Bill de h=D3ra <b...@dehora.net> wrote:
>
>
>>  this is very old grass roots web principals here,
>>>
>>
>> Martin's keyword idea will work as well as URIs if there is a governance
>> function for the registry. There's mo magic property that makes URIs mor=
e or
>> less ambiguous than keywords.
>>
>
> How about the relevant field being defined as taking URI values, but perm=
it
> relative URI references and define its fixed base URI to be a link to the
> registry? Something of best of both worlds...
>

I'm not opposed to that, but think it should be specified thus:

1. if no base URI is specified, presume
http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/as the base.
2. where a base URI exists, concatenate the base UI + the type attributes t=
o
form the complete URI

Chris



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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Dan Bri=
ckley <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:dan...@danbri.org">danbri@dan=
bri.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D=
"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class=3D"im"><br>
On 17 Jun 2010, at 21:56, Bill de h=D3ra &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bill@dehora.=
net" target=3D"_blank">b...@dehora.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
this is very old grass roots web principals here,<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Martin&#39;s keyword idea will work as well as URIs if there is a governanc=
e function for the registry. There&#39;s mo magic property that makes URIs =
more or less ambiguous than keywords.<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
How about the relevant field being defined as taking URI values, but permit=
 relative URI references and define its fixed base URI to be a link to the =
registry? Something of best of both worlds...<font color=3D"#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not opposed to that, but th=
ink it should be specified thus:</div><div><br></div><div>1. if no base URI=
 is specified, presume <a href=3D"http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/">http=
://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/</a> as the base.</div>
<div>2. where a base URI exists, concatenate the base UI + the type attribu=
tes to form the complete URI</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><=
/div><div>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 =
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color=3D"#888888">
Dan</font><div><div></div><div class=3D"h5"><br>
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