Hackable URIs

[csarven]

The resources in the dataset should use "hackable" URIs where they can be easily understood by developers and end-users.

Example:

For http://stats.data-gov.ie/data/m-1-4/2009/county/galway , it is difficult to intuitively know what m-1-4 supposed to represent unless it is dereferenced.

An example of a particular concept http://stats.data-gov.ie/concept/m-4 which is:

concept:m-4
a skos:Concept ;
concept:level "2"^^xsd:string ;
skos:altLabel "Public opening hours"^^xsd:string ;
skos:broader concept:m ;
skos:inScheme http://stats.data-gov.ie/codelist/geo/service-indicators-2009 ;
skos:notation "m.4"^^xsd:string ;
skos:prefLabel "M.4"^^xsd:string .

could use an URI like:
http://stats.data-gov.ie/concept/opening-hours

Bonus: If these URIs reflect notation from another document, it should use skos:definition and link to it.

[boricles]

Yes, you are right.
The thing is that some of them are very large, for example for p-6-1 we have:

The number of residential estates for which the planning permission has expired, in respect of which formal written requests for taking in charge (from residents or developers), were on hands at the beginning of the year

If you are ok to have these large URIs (I think there are no more than 8) I can change them.

[csarven]

Boris, URIs don't have to be verbose to that extent. As long as it is clear enough it should suffice. That is, something like a label - a few words at most.

For instance, reusing the broader concept's label as base, and then appending the rest might be okay.

p-6 Concept could be:
http://stats.data-gov.ie/concept/estates-in-charge

p-6-1 Concept could be:
http://stats.data-gov.ie/concept/estates-in-charge/expired-planning-permissions

Note: That's just to illustrate the idea, I'm not suggesting that those choice of terms are best ways to describe them.

[boricles]

Ok, so we have

• to use the descriptions for generating the URIs (not the codes)
• in the case of the descriptions are too large, we have to figure out a way to short them ... one option could be to use the broader concept's labels (descriptions) as base and appending a short description (but, how to generate this short description?)