[tap-l] User Supplied Ontologies

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Ovid
# on Friday 18 April 2008 03:18:

>> That said, here's a refinement: TAP keys (presumably the most
>> common keys) don't have prefixes.  Other keys do.  80% solution to
>> readability, and a kind of pressure to TAP producers to standardize
>> their keys.
>
>That satisfies my desire for an 'X-' prefix and limits the problem
>space to a manageable level, though from chromatic's arguments, I see
>that this is doesn't solve the 'global namespace' problem.

What if none of the official tap keys ever contained a '.'?  Could we 
live with that?  Users can then prefix their keys with whatever they 
want, including 'foo.' for project foo.  Yes, a trailing '.' would work 
in that case (m/\./), but I don't think TAP needs to dictate 
readability -- perhaps it is enough to recommend a leading '.' in the 
case of "too lazy/don't care to think of a prefix".

--Eric
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