Quoting Jon Phipps <jonphipps_at_gmail.com>:
>
> According to the rules, that 'thing' returned at that URL should contain
> information about all resources identified within that context. So:
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities#geographicNames
> and
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities#conceptScheme
> are different resource 'things' but they will be described in the same
> document 'thing' returned by the server:
> http://id.loc.gov/authorities <http://id.loc.gov/authorities#conceptScheme>
> Since an http server has to treat the URI as a URL, the server is obligated
> by the http protocol to ignore the fragment after the hash.
Thanks, Jon. I was just coming to this conclusion. It sounds to me
like LC is linking to a general page as "here's where you might find
some starting point for info about whatever it is that this identifier
is about."
What adds to the confusion is that page doesn't have anything about
those schemes, but I can understand it as a logical anchor when no
other documentation is available. It's going to be tough, however,
should they develop documentation for the schemes, because these
identifiers already exist. What does one do then?
kc
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Received on Wed Nov 11 2009 - 20:38:24 EST