Is : really not friendly to sparql?

[Peter Ansell]

Hi,

Just reading over some of the issues and on [1] there is the argument
that using ":" would interfere with SPARQL somehow. I haven't noticed
the : in Bio2RDF URI's interfering with my SPARQL queries so far. Is
there something I don't know about?

My reasoning for sticking with : is that it keeps the
namespace:identifier combination together and recongisable, so you
don't have to predesign the whole system around the
namespace/identifier which you do if you use the URL path separator
"/".

Cheers,

Peter

[1] http://sharedname.org/page/Issue/Form_of_URIs

[Marc-Alexandre Nolin]

Well, Has far has I know, it doesn`t interfere either. My plan is to
continus with Bio2RDF standard (which : is part of) and rewrite a
"sharenamed" rdf document from a Bio2RDF one when a sharednamed
entities is ask. So going from : to / is only just a rewrite things.

Marc-Alexandre

2009/4/29 Peter Ansell <ansell...@gmail.com>:

[Alan Ruttenberg]

My bad, I was thinking it couldn't be abbreviated but I realized later
that I *could* make a prefix for such an ID as long as I included the
colon in the prefix. I will amend the discussion. I got confused
because there is another case that won't work but that doesn't occur
here - in the translation of GO, since there is a digit that follow
the colon, such URIs can't be made into qnames and so can't be used as
predicates in RDF/XML. However if they are not predicates, or in
SPARQL queries, which allow leading digits in abbreviated names, it's
fine.
-Alan