- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:27:40 +0200
- To: Sean Martin <sjmm@us.ibm.com>
- CC: Lsid-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Sean Martin wrote: > Here is our first stab at the syntax of the mapping. Looks good, but as far as I am concerned you could go one step further and simply redirect http://lsid-info.org/urn:lsid:foo:bar:baz:1 to the actual site, e.g. http://foo.org/xyz/bar/baz?version=1, and leave it up to that server to use content negotiation to figure out whether to return a normal web page or something else. The reason why I advocate this lazy approach is that I need to create URIs for resources from several dozen life science databases [see http://expasy.org/cgi-bin/lists?dbxref.txt for a brief overview]. The only common thing these database have is that you can (in most cases...) create a URL that points to a web page. Forget about metadata and versioning etc. The current system (which I may have misunderstood) seems to put some obligation on the authority to be able to return metadata; if redirection is used, the blame for failure to deliver metadata is shifted :-)
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