Brian Smith wrote:
Antone Roundy wrote:If @term alone were intended to uniquely identify a category, why have @scheme at all? And why didn't we create or reference a category scheme for everyone to share?Therefore, unless for some reason you want to omit @scheme, I see no need to use IRIs for @term.I agree that @scheme seems pretty useless as it is defined in the specification. Luckily, if you avoid using @scheme, and you use IRIs for @term, you can avoid worrying about it.
It's not useless; it's useful for quantification over a set terms (that is, "for all terms in the scheme X, Y holds true"). That's it's not good for denotation, sure; it wasn't designed for that.
Bill