[Biojava-dev] Re: Flyweight Ontologies?

[Matthew Pocock]

Schreiber, Mark wrote:

>>I think the LSID people would point out at this point that 
>>LSIDs should 
>>be permanent, and immutable, always resolving to the same (or 
>>equivalent) entity. If we substitute URN for LSID, then I'm happy - 
>>urn:biojava: or something - I think we're meant to use 
>>urn:x-biojava as 
>>we've not registered the biojava namespace.
>>    
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>I'm not sure I follow. My intention would be that they do always resolve to the same object. Although I haven't looked too much into the ontology package so I'm not sure if this is possible.
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A particular LSID should resolve for all eternity to the same entity, so 
by using LSIDs for things like ontologies within a running application, 
we are implicitly contracting ourselves to have that data available /for 
ever/, even if it is working data or intermediate results, or if we know 
we will be changing the schema next week. URNs don't have this restriction.

M

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>- Mark
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