Re: URI policy for thesaurus concepts

In message <06c001c42eed$e904cfb0$fe78a8c0@Thomast40>, Thomas Bandholtz 
<thomas@bandholtz.info> writes

>It never should by default!! A well established thesaurus easily counts
>100.000s and more concepts! The requester (be it human or machine) must be
>able to identify the thesaurus source without downloading the whole thing.
>
>I my personal vision, the "whole thing" *never* will be downloaded at once:
>avoid redunancy, and what the hell are we doing here? ---
>We are establish means to *link to specific* concepts and make clear where
>the come from.

Absolutely.  Assuming that the machine-readable description of the 
thesaurus concept contains similarly-formatted references to its 
"neighbouring" concepts (or that there is a form of query you can issue 
which returns "all concepts with a link to this one"), then you can 
browse up and down the thesaurus tree structure from the starting 
concept by issuing multiple requests - if that is what you wish to do.

Richard Light
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Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@light.demon.co.uk