- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:08:57 +0200
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: rdf-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sandro Hawke wrote: > But I strongly encourage you to resist this temptation! It's so much > more cool to be able to actually surf the data, using the URI/name for > a protein/person/property/whatever to automatically and efficiently > get more data about it. Well, I'll reconsider. In fact I have already switched back and forth several times... The problem is that I can't guarantee that anything will ever be directly resolvable in a stable way, especially as I have so far not been able to convince the people in charge of the web site to support a more logical naming scheme - some people just won't listen to technical arguments :-) And if your identifiers can't be resolved directly, I feel it is better to be clear about that and use URNs, right? Another issue is that we reference a lot of data in other databases. Virtually none of these databases have stable URLs for accessing their resources (/cgi-bin/ etc). We therefore keep a list that allows us to map identifiers for a given database to the address-of-the-day.
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