- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:14:15 -0400
- To: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "www-tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: Dan Connolly > > I'd really rather not put 303 redirect configuration in > the critical path to deployment of garden variety > Semantic Web data. The <doc#term> technique is available to > ordinary authors who can only use ftp to upload > data to the web. Ordinary authors can use a 303-redirect service like http://thing-described-by.org/ to avoid having to configure their servers. This technique can also be combined with the use of PURLs, so that the "http://thing-described-by.org?" prefix does not have to appear in ontologies. For example, this PURL URI for me: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/DBOOTH/id/dbooth 302 redirects to: http://thing-described-by.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ which 303-redirects to: http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ Creation of that PURL required only registering it at purl.org. No configuration was done at dbooth.org and no registration was needed at thing-described-by.org. Of course, if purl.org also offered 303 redirects instead of only 302's -- are there any OCLC folks listening? -- this could all be done in one step instead of two. Note also that with purl.org's "partial redirect" feature (see http://purl.org/maint/choose_redirect.html ) multiple URIs in an ontology do not have to be registered individually at purl.org. Come to think of it, shouldn't this be covered in the "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web" document, given that: (a) a 303-redirect service can significantly reduce a barrier to adoption; and (b) persistence is an important element in creating "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web"? David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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