- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:58:53 +0100
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Hi David, Yes, one could use URL shorteners and that's probably the only sane way to go but it's still not ideal because: 1. Both Bitly and Tinyurl come with "no guarantee of service" (and a lot of tracking) - Google's goo.gl is all wrapped up with their services too - not the kind of thing public administrations will be happy about using. Yves Lafon's http://kwz.me is a pure shortener with no tracking of any kind but it's a one man project so, again, it won't be 'good enough' for public sector data. 2. Neither a shortened URL nor the long form tell a human reader a lot whereas something (non-standard I know) like urn:iso/iec:5218:2004 tells you that it's an ISO standard that a human can look up. The ISO catalogue URLs point to Web pages or PDFs available from those Web pages so you still need to be a human to get the information. The danger would be that a machine would look up the datatype URI and expect to get data back, not ISO's paywall :-) So, not ideal, but still the best (practical) solution? On 03/04/2012 15:38, David Booth wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 14:33 +0100, Phil Archer wrote: >> [ . . . ] The actual URI for it is >> http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=36266 >> (or rather, that's the page about the spec but that's a side issue for >> now). >> >> That URI is just horrible and certainly not a 'cool URI'. The Eurostat >> one is no better. >> >> Does the datatype URI have to resolve to anything (in theory no, but in >> practice? Would a URN be appropriate? > > It's helpful to be able to click on the URI to figure out what exactly > was meant. How about just using a URI shortener, such as tinyurl.com or > bit.ly? > > -- Phil Archer W3C eGovernment http://www.w3.org/egov/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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