[tdwg-guid] URN, URI and http

[Pete DeVries]

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if it would not be simpler to have the following uri structure.

http://www.speciesid.org/species/45ae56895967  <- the concept of the
species (uri)

http://www.speciesid.org/species/45ae56895967.xml <- species concept info as xml

http://www.speciesid.org/species/45ae56895967.rdf  <- species concept
info as rdf

It is even possible to have a .html if you want a human readable page. The
fact that a web server by default adds an .html to a request does not mean
that the concept uri and the html species page are the same thing.

This would be easy to setup either as static pages, or by using a
database driven
site. The 303 redirection and  the hash technique both seem to be more complex
than they need to be.

The structure above is also very ameanable to REST style webservices.

- Pete





On 4/16/07, Markus Döring <m.doering at bgbm.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I don't really intend to fire up a new discussion about GUIDs, but I
> came across some pretty good documents about URIs I thought I share
> with you. They adress pretty much all of our needs for persistent and
> resolvable identifiers in these texts.
>
>
> (1) http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/dfkidok/publications/TM/07/01/tm-07-01.pdf
> "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web" by Leo Sauermann DFKI GmbH, Richard
> Cyganiak Freie Universität Berlin (D2R author), Max Völkel FZI Karlsruhe
> The authors of this document come from the semantic web community and
> discuss what kind of URIs should be used for RDF resources.
>
> (2) http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/URNsAndRegistries-50
> This one here is written by the W3C and addresses the questions "When
> should URNs or URIs with novel URI schemes be used to name
> information resources for the Web?" The answers given are "Rarely if
> ever" and "Probably not". Common arguments in favor of such novel
> naming schemas are examined, and their properties compared with those
> of the existing http: URI scheme.
>
>
> best wishes,
> Markus Döring
>
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