- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:00:13 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>, semantic-web@w3.org
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 14:55 +0000, Graham Klyne wrote: > In my view, there are no purely *technical* advantages to this approach - > indeed, technically it's an extra level of complication. Agreed. > > But, there may be *social* advantages: many people are still wary (and with > some cause in some environments) of using http: URIs as persistent identifiers. > The community may feel more comfortable with, and hence more likely to adopt, > something that is so clearly signposted as a persistent identifier. But even this is a misguided "advantage", as it evaporates when people eventually realize that http URIs can do everything their special purpose identifiers can do, but http URIs have far greater up-take (a/k/a the network effect). David Booth > > Of course, all the considerations of "cool URIs" [1] still apply. > > #g > -- > > [1] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI > > > Michael Schneider wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Here is something that makes me wonder: > > > > CEUR-WS at > > > > http://ceur-ws.org > > > > is a service for scientific workshops to publish their proceedings. The > > complete workshop proceedings are freely available at HTTP-URIs such as > > > > http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-560 > > > > I consider this a good and stable URI scheme. > > > > Now I find the following statement on the service's main page: > > > > 27-Jan-2010: We have started to assign persistent > > identifiers (URN) to published volumes. You can > > resolve them either by installing URN Support > > as a plug-in to your browser or use a web-based resolver, > > e.g. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7 > > for Vol-560. > > > > Does anyone have an idea what is the advantage of having this additional URN > > scheme compared to the HTTP-URI scheme used so far (which is still valid, of > > course). Do I miss something obvious? > > > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > -- > > Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider > > Research Scientist, Information Process Engineering (IPE) > > Tel : +49-721-9654-726 > > Fax : +49-721-9654-727 > > Email: michael.schneider@fzi.de > > WWW : http://www.fzi.de/michael.schneider > > ======================================================================= > > FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe > > Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe > > Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 > > Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts, Az 14-0563.1, RP Karlsruhe > > Vorstand: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, > > Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolffried Stucky, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer > > Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther Leßnerkraus > > ======================================================================= > > > > > > > > > -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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