- From: Christopher St John <ckstjohn@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:41:12 -0500
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Richard Cyganiak<richard@cyganiak.de> wrote: > On 10 Jul 2009, at 07:42, Christopher St John wrote: >> >> Specifically, in Section 3 "Choosing URIs" of HtPLDotW, >> the suggestion to use mnemonic names (names linked to >> some of the data about the object) has proven to be >> problematic in practice. > > Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> replied: > > When it comes to opaque or mnemonic URIs, there is a tradeoff between > reusability and longevity. Entirely opaque URIs are less likely to be > re-used and linked to than mnemonic ones. > That doesn't seem to be the case in practice. Geonames is a good counterexample. Permalinks have proven to be the best candidates for re-use in the web at large (for the reasons listed in the Cool URIs doc). I suspect they're the best candidates for re-use on the web of linked data, too. -cks -- Christopher St. John cks@praxisbridge.com http://praxisbridge.com http://artofsystems.blogspot.com
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