Re: Selectors as URIs?

Which, to expand slightly, doesn't work as the DOI HTTP handler redirects
to another URI without that fragment, losing the semantics of the original
URI.

Rob

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Robert Bolick <robert.bolick@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You mean like attaching it to the tail end of a DOI (which many EPUBs and
> other  online content objects have)? 😁
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 13 Apr 2015, at 17:10, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> >
> > (Although this may not be immediately relevant to the Working Group
> right now, I think the question *may* become relevant, hence my copy to it…)
> >
> > Rob, Paolo,
> >
> > a question came up at the Digital Publishing IG today. The IG is looking
> at general fragment identifiers for the purpose of identifying portions
> within a digital document (typically EPUB, but also some future versions of
> it). The Selector structure of the OA obviously gives a great model for
> various types of anchors, mainly when combined with other, existing
> fragment id definitions.
> >
> > However, at present, the selectors are defined in terms of RDF
> resources; to take an example from the spec, it says, for example
> >
> > selector": {
> >      "@id": "http://example.org/selector1",
> >      "@type": "oa:DataPositionSelector",
> >      "start": 4096,
> >      "end": 4104
> > }
> >
> > To be usable for a fragment identification, this structure should be
> turned into some sort of a, well, URI fragment. I mean, it is probably
> relatively easy to do this, something like
> >
> >
> http://www.example.org/#selector(type=DataPositionSelector,start=4096,end=4104)
> >
> > would do it but, of course, the ideal would be if that type of fragment
> format would be defined at one place.
> >
> > The question is: has this ever been discussed previously on the OA
> model? If it hasn't been done, should it be done? If it should be done,
> should it be done by this WG, or some other group?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
>



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Rob Sanderson
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