[Buildingdata] Re: Ex-buildings

[Nick Gibbins]

Cool URIs don't change. When URIs change, links in documents break
without warning.

Building numbers change; buildings are renumbered, building numbers are
reused.

"Modelling the present" puts the onus of dealing with changing URIs wholly
onto the users of data, and doesn't give them any tools with which to 
manage the change.

Nick

On 12 Dec 2011, at 15:40, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:

> Names change all the time. Building codes less often but when they 
> change, I currently plan to only worry about modelling the present.
> 
> Historical data is not unimportant, but it's not worth overcomplicating 
> the main use-cases.
> 
> On 12/12/2011 15:23, Ian Stuart wrote:
>> On 12/12/11 14:57, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>> What happens when the University builds a new building with the
>>> number 86?
>> What happens when Building 42 is renamed Building 42a?
>> Is there a concept of timeliness (when they start&  when the end) to names?
>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>> On 12 Dec 2011, at 14:53, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've just seen a portacabin building dismantled;
>>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/86.html is gone!!
>>>> 
>>>> I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a class for ex-buildings, so
>>>> that if something refers to it, it's explicitly a demolished building
>>>> (well, carried away on trucks in our case) rather than just a 404.
>> 
>> 
> 
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> 
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