- From: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:00:43 -0400
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: ogbujic@ccf.org, public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, wangxiao@musc.edu
> > > and making URIs > > > dereferenceable to useful metadata is certainly one > > > convenient way to help do so. > > > > Really? The point of these examples is that there are a variety of > > cases which for a variety of reasons it's not so convenient > > (actually, either for the minter or the discoverer). So the > > recommendation can say, "When its convenient and helpful, use http > > uris, otherwise, don't" But that's not so great a recommendation. > > Can you explain specific cases in which you see usefully dereferenceable > URIs as NOT being so convenient for the discoverer? Sure, when the URI refers to a resource for which information about it exists at multiple (URL/data store/web service) locations. -=Michel=-
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