Re: FRBR WEMI and identifiers

From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:01:24 +1100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:47, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
> Personally, I've never linked the "httpRange-14" solution of doing fancy
> stuff with fragment identifiers. It only leads to confusion in my mind. But
> I'm kind of a heretic when it comes to this stuff.

No, on this issue we agree (for the most part; I like parts of it way
up to fragment identifiers and the issue of identity), so not so much
a heretic as a part of an exclusive club. :) BTW, My fellow Topic
Mapper Lars Marius has an excellent post about this, for those who are
lost in what the issue here is ;

   http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/125.html

And do note the comment from Marc deGraauw with regards to those pesky
fragment identifiers ;

"Technically, what a hash URI identifies is dependent on the media
type. For HTML it typically is a point in a document, but Dan Connolly
considers changing this, see:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Sep/0205.html I sure
think this needs changing, but right now plenty people use hash URI's
for non-IR's in practice without much trouble."

Again, dependent on media-type. This is a field which is in motion,
and indeed confusing and not settled, no matter what RFC you feel like
sticking to.

regards,

Alex
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