[Lsid-developer] Case sensitivity and RDF clarification

[Roger H. <ro...@td...>]

Hi All

I am confused about case in LSIDs.

RDF URI references are case sensitive.

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-Graph-URIref
"Two RDF URI references are equal if and only if they compare as equal, 
character by character, as Unicode strings."

LSIDs are not case sensitive for the first 3 parts.

Unless we have a convention for case usage for the first 3 parts of an 
LSID then graphs will not join up correctly in RDF libraries when people 
vary the case unless they go through are regex on import to make them 
all lower case.

Is this true? Does anyone have experience of this?

Many thanks for your help.

Roger



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