[Crm-sig] URI policies

[Vladimir Ivanov]

Dear all,

Why do we need human-readable URIs?
Any row in a certain database table could be identified by unique
(surrogate) key.
An algorithm should only generate different URI for different resources.
So, we need to define a difference between resources (or their representations).

If identifier should not have any additional inner structure (and meaning),
then we could use GUID.

For example, "http://url.de/E19_ZZZ", where ZZZ is GUID.
Add name or content of resource into URI is not a very good idea.

Alternatively, we could use hashing and add any desirable structure into URI.
For example, "http://url.de/cityname_streetname_HASHCODE".

How to make a URI out of DNA?

Best regards,
Vladimir


2008/11/27 martin <martin at ics.forth.gr>:
> Dear All,
>
> I suggest to discuss in more details policies to use URIs in RDF or OWL instances.
>
> For instance, how to describe a museum:
>
> How to distinguish the Website from the Actor, if we refer to the museums domain name:
> MUSEUM/http://www.gnm.de/ ?
>
> http://www.gnm.de/MUSEUM ?
> http://www.gnm.de/ACTOR?
>
> If we have a museum URI, we could generate all object IDs by inventory number + museum URL:
>
> http://www.gnm.de/OBJECT/AB_45678900_1870 ?
> http://www.gnm.de/PHYSICAL_OBJECT/... ?
> http://www.gnm.de/CRM_E19/...  ?
>
> Does anyone know, if the Getty ULAN suggests a good practice for URIs for ULAN entries?
>
> I believe these are issues that should be easy to resolve, and should be quickly resolved.
>
> More complicated: How to you make a URI out of an postal address. Any idea, examples???


>
> Best,
>
> Martin
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