[Dbpedia-discussion] URI / IRI again...

[Jona C. S. <jc...@sa...>]

Hi,

the page http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Internationalization/Chapters was
missing a lot of data, so I went and checked the endpoints. Here's
what I found.

As I expected after our discussion last week about domains, IRIs and
URIs, all chapters (except English) use the
http://xx.dbpedia.org/resource/ namespace. Good!

But I was a bit disappointed to see that contrary to the result of our
discussion, a majority of chapters actually use URIs:

- cs, en, fr, ja, ko, pl, pt use URIs
- de, el, es, it, ru use IRIs

Is this going to change?

I'm currently preparing the datasets for the next DBpedia release and
I would like them to be compatible with the data published by the
individual chapters, but I'd also like us to move towards IRIs. What
should I do?

- extract URIs for the languages listed above and IRIs for all other languages
- extract URIs for the languages listed above, additionally offer
their datasets with IRIs, offer only IRIs for all other languages
- extract URIs for en, additionally offer en datasets with IRIs, use
only IRIs for all other languages
- offer alternative datasets (URIs and IRIs) for all languages

Either way, there is going to be confusion...

JC