- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:48:09 -0400
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com>, "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Greetings, FWIW, I believe there's at least one quite major architectural issue with OpenURL (however, I don't think it's relevant to uri@w3.org, so I've removed it from the CC list). See the scenario in part 1[1], section 5 for an example. There, a "ContextObject" serves to, amoungst other things, provide information necessary to augment the information that isn't provided in the doi URI for the article. Had the article simply been given a http URI, the ContextObject, and the rest of the OpenURL framework, wouldn't be required in this case. An architectural principle (or at least I think it's a principle, as the TAG has used the term) that's ignored there, is the principle of late binding; that identifiers should be crafted such that they encapsulate all the information necessary to retrieve a representation (roughly speaking). Just my 2c. [1] http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/PubComDocs/StdDocs/Part1-PC-20030513.pdf Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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