Re: addressable identifier?

>- assuming that the manifest is an external non-HTML document (read JSON),
its URL is different from any of the URLs to the HTML content.

I do not agree.  One option for representing manifests is to augment
navigation documents, which is HTML.

Regards,
Makoto

2017-07-28 1:31 GMT+09:00 Romain <rdeltour@gmail.com>:

> In another thread Hadrien said:
>
> > "[the] URL [of the manifest] identifies the publication as a whole",
> that's where we have a pretty massive disagreement as I believe that the
> URL of the manifest is a perfect fit to identify the publication as a
> whole, but others (Dave, Garth for example) want a URL that returns HTML
> instead (not sure why an identifier MUST return HTML, but anyway...)
>
>
> I think I was in the "others" group, but I believe there's a
> misunderstanding about what we're talking about.
>
> What we all probably agree on the obvious:
>
> - a publication has a manifest, which is addressable (it has a URL)
> - a publication has HTML content ("primary resources", it seems), which is
> addressable (each primary resource has a URL)
> - assuming that the manifest is an external non-HTML document (read JSON),
> its URL is different from any of the URLs to the HTML content.
>
>
> I can see how a UA will want to directly process URLs to non-HTML
> manifests, for instance to parse the catalog from a store.
> I would also hope that a web site pointing to a Publication would use a
> URL to an HTML resource (so that the link can be opened and rendered in a
> non-supporting browser).
>
> But these are use cases for **links**, not **identifiers**.
>
> So, my question is: what is the envisioned use case for an "addressable
> identifier"? does it matter or can we assume that there's no need for a
> canonical location and we just point to whatever makes the most sense
> depending on the context?
>
> Romain.
>
> PS: the PWP UCR contains one use case about uniquely identifying a Web
> Publication [1], but I'm not sure I see to which extent this use case
> requires more than the ability to link to the content. The UC doesn't make
> a strong case for the uniqueness requirement.
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/pwp-ucr/#unique-identifier
>
>
>
>


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