Support for CURIEs in link types

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Phil Archer

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Jan 27, 2020, 4:37:23 AM1/27/20

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Morning all,

And as this is the first email to this list I should begin by thanking you for signing up (you did, honestly!)

I wanted to let you know that Nick has fixed a big that's been niggling away for a while - the lack of proper support for link types expressed as CURIEs. To date, we've been appending thing like ?linkType=hasRetailers to a DL URI. If you included the (correct) linkType=gs1:hasRetailers then it wasn't recognised. Now it is.

For now, the gs1: prefix is optional (it works with and without) however, developers SHOULD switch to the CURIE form as we MAY end support for no-namespace link types. There's no immediate need but if and when we start making use of terms from other vocabularies (especially schema.org) it will become more important.

Please let us know if any f your demos break as a result of this change - all being well, they won't!