[MOBY-dev] Primitives as primary input

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi Andreas!

That's a very interesting case!  Is "email" a data-type (Object) or a  
semantic-type (Namespace)??  It is a semantic type in the sense that all  
email addresses are unique, and therefore behave as identifiers... but it  
is often used as a data-type in that it would be associated with other  
information like an address and telephone number.

Personally I would be tempted to make a new namespace 'emailAddress' or  
something like that, since semantic "precision" is the goal of these two  
ontologies.

What did we do for URLs?  ...LOL!  Okay, I just went to have a look in the  
ontologies and we have an Object "URL" and a Namespace "URL"!!!  I guess  
others have had the same question and made different decisions :-)  I see  
that it is Pieter's services that consume the Object "URL" - maybe he can  
explain to us why he chose to make URL an object rather than a namespace.

Pieter?

M



On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:20:11 -0800, Andreas Groscurth  
<groscurt at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> wrote:

> And hi again,
>
> we just had the discussion here... is it recommended to use primitives as
> primary input ? Or are there actually only for use in secondary  
> parameters or
> as part of a complex datatype ?
>
> E.g. if a service requires an email as input - give it an object with
> namespace 'email' or similar - or could I use String with namespace  
> 'email'
>
> Thanks and byebye
> andreas
>



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