- From: Pete Johnston <Pete.Johnston@eduserv.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:46:08 +0100
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "Hausenblas, Michael" <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>
- Cc: <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Steven, > So here's a problem statement: express that the author of > "The Wasteland" > is T.S. Eliot. > > My proposal: > > <pto:http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html> dc:creator > <pto:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot> > > A URI with a pto scheme allows you to follow your nose in the > easiest way possible, because it is right in front of your > nose: we are talking about the primary topic of the contained > URI, you can follow that URI to find out more information. > You don't need to control any server in order to achieve this > effect, and it is minimal typing for a major use case that is > otherwise extremely tedious to express. > > (You can even pretend that dereferencing such a URI returns a > 303, with a See Also to the contained URI if you want). Or you could use http://thing-described-by.org?http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html and http://thing-described-by.org?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot which works right now, and doesn't require any "pretending" about the 303s :-) See http://thing-described-by.org/ for details. And if there are questions around the persistent ownership of that domain or the continued running of their HTTP server, I think the OCLC folks responsible for the PURL server http://purl.org/ are working with Eric Miller & Zepheira to enhance that system to provide some functionality in this space, where the service would be backed by the institutional comnmitment of OCLC. I'm not clear about the details, but see e.g. http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200669.htm http://prototypo.blogspot.com/2008/02/beyond-redirection-rich-and-active .html AFAIK, all of this, as Michael suggests, is being done without requiring the creation of a new URI scheme. Pete --- Pete Johnston Technical Researcher, Eduserv Foundation Web: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/people/petejohnston/ Weblog: http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/ Email: pete.johnston@eduserv.org.uk Tel: +44 (0)1225 474323
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