[lyo-dev] dcterms:identifier or oslc:shortId

[Jad El-Khoury <jad@xxxxxx>]

Hi

 

I need to have a property that uniquely identifies a resource, which is not its URI (for internal usage, so it is easy to map the resource URI to the internal database key).

 

Any tips on a standard RDF property for such a property?

 

from http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OSLCCoreSpecAppendixA, I can see either dcterms:identifier or oslc:shortId.

 

Is there a reason NOT to use dcterms:identifier, which to me seems more common/standard.

 

One argument is that dcterms:identifier is expected to “identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system”.

that is, unless you have a such a “formal system” (in my understanding a database key is not), dcterms:identifier is not appropriate.

 

regards

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