Re: LDP Minutes of June 3 - straw-poll ?

On 6/4/13 4:36 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>> >on a related note, just today the W3C published a FPWD of a "URLs in Data
>> >Primer"http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-urls-in-data-20130604/  ; essentially
>> >what it says is that instead of using the funky httpRange-14 dance, what
>> >you should do instead is at the model level clearly distinguish and expose
>> >different URIs to documents about things and things themselves, if it
>> >matters to what you're doing.
> yes that's a nice find Erik. Thanks.
> Except that they should really have big warning signs
> on 303s and tell people that it requires one more redirect and is so not the
> favored method. The #URL method is the efficient way to do things, and the one
> that is certainly correct. 303s are there to help cover erros. I'll leave them
> a note on that.
>
> Perhaps that will help Alexandre Bertails.
>

Note that the 303 heuristic is now just an option. You can now do a 200 
OK on a hashless URI and then use "Content-Location: " header to aid 
disambiguation i.e., the Content-Location: header is the final arbiter 
for hashless URI disambiguation. Thus, 
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_data> can now result in a 200 OK 
with <http://dbpedia.org/page/Linked_data> returned in the 
"Content-Type" response header.

I also posted this to the LOD forum encouraging adoption of this new 
heuristic as yet another option for URI disambiguation. Naturally, we 
will incorporate this into DBpedia once we are clear it won't trip up 
existing LOD consumers and we arrive at consensus with other project 
members.

Links:

1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2013Mar/0133.html -- 
thread about recent HTTP changes addressing the 303 concern

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