Re: ANN: datos.bne.es, the new Linked Data service from the National Library of Spain

On 12/3/14 7:13 AM, Daniel Vila Suero wrote:
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> My understanding is that an agent should only use the Location to 
> retrieve more data (a representation of a resource). Given a canonical 
> URI to name the entity (http://datos.bne.es/resource/XX1000054), an 
> agent can try to dereference it, asking for a concrete representation 
> that he understands (e.g., turtle) and what it gets back is a LOCATION 
> with a Turtle representation of the entity in question, that it's 
> described in terms of canonical URIs (e.g., 
> http://datos.bne.es/resource/XX1000054 a frbr:Person; rdfs:label 
> "Richard"). The agent then can follow his nose using these URIs to 
> retrieve more data (in the RDF representations we only use canonical 
> URIs not Locations).
>
> We have tried to follow existing best practices (ISA guidelines [1] 
> mention for example the pattern /id/ --> /doc/), but we are open to 
> suggestions from the community on how to improve content-negotiation 
> mechanisms because our goal is to make the data useful for application 
> developers.


Here is a Vapor Report [1]. Hopefully, it sheds light on this matter:

[1] http://bit.ly/spanish-national-library-sample-entity-uri-report -- 
Vapour Report to shows whats happening (conclusion: nothing wrong).

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