- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 12:42:37 +0000
- To: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
- CC: Christian Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
Hi.
Chris has suggested I send the following to the LOD list, as it may be of interest to several people:
Hi Chris.
Great stuff!
I have a question.
Or would you prefer I put it on the LOD list for discussion?
It is about url encoding.
Dbpedia:
http://dbpedia.org/page/Ashford_%28borough%29 is not found
http://dbpedia.org/page/Ashford_(borough) works, and redirects to
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Borough_of_Ashford
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_%28borough%29 works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_(borough) works
Both go to the page with content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_of_Ashford although the URL in the address bar doesn't change.
So the problem:
I usually find things in wikipedia, and then use the last bit to construct the dbpedia URI - I suspect lots of people do this.
But as you can see, the url encoded URI, which can often be found in the wild, won't allow me to do this.
There are of course many wikipedia URLs with "(" and ")" in them - (artist), (programmer), (borough) etc.
It is also the same with comma and single quote.
I think this may be different from 3.8, but can't be sure - is it intended?
Very best
Hugh
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