Download links to rdf serializations of the ontology

[pwoltjer]

It would be nice for the end-user to provide a download link in the documentation to one or more rdf serializations of the ontology.

[hoijui]

In my opinion, this should be done through content negotiation on the ontologies URI (which is already displayed in the generated HTML). That would be following best-practices. Providing such serializations through the HTML documentation, would make it less likely that people would implement through content negotiation, and thus it would promote an anti-pattern.
Doing it through content negotiation is the most natural way of providing different serializations, and it makes the ontology machine-readable.

[hoijui]

... What could be useful though, if it was possible in HTML (I don;t know) to make links that request a specific content-type, so then we could combine the two, and the links not working would then be a good thing, as it would mean people would report that, and thus the ontology maintainers would be pressured to implement correct content negotiation.

[graybeal]

Yes, both should be possible. The content negotiation does not preclude explicit IRIs that result in the same download. (I think there is a standard practice for including the requested format after the IRI.)