| Abstract |
On the E-culture server more and more vocabularies are stored, made by different people and
becoming more complex to handle.
Some problems were always there and some start to arise:
- what namespace to choose for each vocabulary?
- how to deal with scalability?
- what if somebody else makes a vocabulary using (stealing) the same namespace?
- how to do version management?
- how to prevent any central mechanism to play God?
- how to keep the system robust by redundancy?
- how to make our management approach be generic enough that it not only works for the VU group?
- how to keep our management approach not to interfere with the standards, keeping it
backward compatible?
Jan Wielemaker, our Prolog guru uses the unix GIT versioning system to manage his SWI prolog software. Inspired by this, we had a discussion if we can also do RDF versioning like that.
As it seems, but thats almost to good to be true, it solves all problems described above.
In this WAI slot, we would like to present the preliminary but promising idea and to discuss it with you.
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