Re: Permanent Identifiers for the Web Project Launches

I think permitting email requests is fine for now.  If you want a REALLY
simple web front end, we could just put up a form that would allow someone
to provide the URI they want, the target, the type of redirect, and their
contact info.  Then have that get logged and emailed out.  Super simple  I
could do it in 10 minutes if you want it ugly.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> On 05/08/2013 08:13 PM, Renato Iannella wrote:
> > I think the latter puts most "authors" out of contention to create
> > ids.
> >
> > What about a simple web UI?
>
> I agree. We haven't had the time to write the "simple web UI" software.
> It's still not clear what functionality that software should have as
> we've already gotten a number of requests that go far beyond what
> purl.org is capable of providing.
>
> If you know somebody that has the time to write that sort of software,
> we'd love to try and see if we can get it started.
>
> The "too complex for most authors" reason is also one of the reasons why
> the mailing list exists. Someone can send in a request, or file an
> issue, and one of the admins can add it to the website. We should
> mention that in the documentation...
>
>
> https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/commit/3b12c0947381fc0db90bfb251d36ee15fa291f9e
>
> https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/commit/d3f76f0cd835f1ae92b52355bf953ad59c09838d
>
> Done... changes are live on the website.
>
>
> The request can be something as simple as:
>
> I want a re-direct setup for this URL
>
> https://w3id.org/mylink/foo
>
> to point to
>
> https://example.com/bar/baz/foo
>
> using a 301 redirect.
>
> Do you think that's acceptable for the near future? We really do need
> custom software written, but doing so prematurely might prevent people
> from requesting interesting use cases.
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>


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