- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:23:44 +0200
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- CC: gregtyrelle@phalanxbiotech.com, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote: > FYI, this is almost exactly the purpose of > http://thing-described-by.org . It is a 303-redirect service. For > example, if > http://example.org/yeast-database/12345 denotes a page (an information > resource) that describes a particular yeast, then > http://thing-described-by.org?http://example.org/yeast-database/12345 > denotes the yeast itself (a non-information resource). Should mention that the HCLS PURL resolver allows you to do the same distinction -- plus it has nicer URLs :-) On the other hand I think it overshoots the target a bit by having redirect URLs not just for concepts, but also for specific representations. But that's another discussion... UniProt provides you with the following URIs, hope that's enough :-) http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P00750 <- concept (GET returns 303) http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P00750 <- a nice web page http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P00750.rdf <- RDF representation http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P00750.gff <- GFF representation ...
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