Re: Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web

From: Dan Matei <Dan_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:23:20 +0200
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
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From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_JHU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:24:06 -0400

> 
> [ There is potentially something wrong with having your URI begin 
> http://clasate.cimec.co/Detailu.asp though.  Some day you might stop 
> using asp. You don't want all your URI's to be ruined when you do so. 

Right, right ! But that's ancient ! It is c. 4 years old :-)

> Much better to keep your URI's technology independent.  
> http://clasate.cimec.co/Detalu?id is much better.  Although the REST 
> fanatics will tell you it should be http://clasate.cimec.co/Detailu/id 

I completely agree. We will do that.

> instead.  (Depending on what 'detailu' means, I don't know).  I think 

detaliu (ro) = detail (en)   :-)

> But if I just have an OCLC number, say "23233455", it's very easy for me 
> to lose the context that that IS an OCLC number.   I need to make sure 
> not to confuse it with the LCCN "23233455". If instead I'm using 
> "http://www.worldcat.org/23233455" as an identifier, the context comes 
> with it, it's not gonna get seperated, and it's not gonna collide with 
> "http://id.loc.gov/lccn/23233455".  It's globally unique _without_ 
> needing to use something cumbersome like a GUID.

True. But if the ugly GUID is used and I'm loosing my www.cimec.ro domain and I have to move my object, then

http://www.cimec.ro/a1f81a4e-e298-4472-86e1-ad788331e260

could morph to

http://www.x.org/a1f81a4e-e298-4472-86e1-ad788331e260

and I know that it points to the same object (maybe on a different disk, in a different country).

Dan
Received on Tue Oct 27 2009 - 15:31:00 EDT