- From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 19:06:56 +0100 (BST)
- To: weibel@oclc.org
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
On Fri, 11 Aug 1995 weibel@oclc.org wrote: > Among the *MANY* deficiencies of this system was the need for people > to enter such numbers without error. Something like 30% of the failures > to retrieve had simply to do with this human-hostile resource identifier > being mistyped. > > URIs (and I assume we are talking about URNs here) should be amenable > to handling by humans. Yep, so numbers with check digits should be ok, right? After all, we use them for other things such as ISBNs, ISSNs, etc, etc. You could even make the encoding error correcting if you really want to be helpful to the users. Jon -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jon Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND. LE11 3TU. *** Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a fool who holds his tongue ***
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