Re: Does follow-your-nose apply in the enterprise? was: RDF for molecules, using InChI

Xiaoshu Wang wrote:
> [...] why not designate a top domain name 
> like "tmp" to signal this.  For instance, use 
> "http://example.com.tmp/doc" as the temporary URI for the eventual 
> resource of "http://example.com/doc".

There are in fact already several reserved TLDs such as .test and .invalid, 
see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html. But I'm not sure this is needed.

In a closed world, I guess something like "urn:my:1345" is fine, but in an 
open world you want to avoid collisions, and to ensure that you either need 
to use some kind of GUID (not always practical), or you need some kind of 
registry. Unfortunately setting up a registry and getting it accepted seems 
to be rather difficult business. Fortunately there is an existing registry 
that is working fine and has been accepted globally (quite an achievement). 
Making use of that system for any identifier scheme seems like a good idea 
-- unless you happen to have massive money and political power backing you!

Both PURLs and LSIDs make use of domain names; once you have domain names 
involved, my feeling is that you might as well stick the http: in front...

Regarding the problem of having your website swamped with requests from 
crawlers that all result in 404: Just use a subdomain in your identifiers, 
for example we use purl.uniprot.org, so if we hadn't set up our nameserver 
to handle this subdomain, there would be no 404 errors filling up our logs.

Received on Thursday, 9 August 2007 11:58:38 UTC