2 minute read.Five Years
Oh wow! A rather remarkable plea here from Dan Brickley on the public-lod mailing list which calls for the registrant of the dbpedia.org DNS entry to top it up with another 5+ years worth of clocktime. Some quotes:
_“The idea of such a cool RDF namespace having only 6 months left on the DNS registration gives me the worries.”
“If you could add another 5-10 years to the DNS registration I’d sleep easier at night.”
“Let me stress I’m not suggesting that this domain is actually at risk. Just that the not-at-risk-ness isn’t readily evident from a quick look in the DNS.”
“Those in the know are probably confident this is all in hand, but as the SW gets bigger I suspect we ought to establish practices such as “vocabularies that seek global adoption should always have 5+ years on their DNS registries”.”_
Yes, and maybe those cool URIs should have kite marks, too. 😉
(Btw, for those who may not already know the maximum length of time that any DNS name may be leased out in a single registration is 10 years, see the FAQ put out by ICANN.)
So, pity the poor user of a given semantic web application who may not know what the expectancy is behind the nodes in an RDF graph of assertions. Shifting sands, indeed.
Further reading
- Jul 1, 2024 – Celebrating five years of Grant IDs: where are we with the Crossref Grant Linking System?
- Sep 7, 2023 – Open Funder Registry to transition into Research Organization Registry (ROR)
- Nov 17, 2022 – How funding agencies can meet OSTP (and Open Science) guidance using existing open infrastructure
- Feb 1, 2021 – Event Data: A Plan of Action
- Dec 9, 2020 – Fast, citable feedback: Peer reviews for preprints and other record types
- Oct 13, 2020 – Calling all 24-hour (PID) party people!
- Aug 25, 2020 – Publishers, are you ready to ROR?
- Apr 27, 2020 – Memoirs of a DOI detective...it’s error-mentary dear members
