Source: librdf-prefixes-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: cdbs, devscripts, perl, debhelper, dh-buildinfo, libtest-warn-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Jonas Smedegaard , Florian Schlichting Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/librdf-prefixes-perl Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/librdf-prefixes-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/RDF-Prefixes Package: librdf-prefixes-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${cdbs:Depends} Suggests: ${cdbs:Suggests} Description: simple way to turn URIs into QNames Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. . RDF::Prefixes is not so much for managing namespaces/prefixes in code (see RDF::Trine::NamespaceMap for that), but as a helper for code that serialises data using namespaces. . It generates pretty prefixes, reducing "http://purl.org/dc/terms/" to "dc" rather than something too generic like "ns01", and provides a context for keeping track of namespaces already used, so that when "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" is encountered, it won't stomp on the previous definition of "dc".