Yeah this is another classic problem.
The way I think about this stuff is as follows:
A specific URI should refer to a unique concept in the world and
should be as human readable as possible but NO MORE.
Meaning, that if making the URI more human readable fucks up the way
it refers to the concept in question (ie by referencing the broadcast
rather than the episode, or makes it impossible to split apart two
bands with the same name, or makes it necessary create multiple URLs
for the same first order object) then that's the point where you have
to go 'no more human readability/guessability for me'!
On 16 Jul 2007, at 12:17, Andrew Bowden wrote:
Another example (from the same area):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/x9qv/ - good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/elton_john/
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/elton_john/> - better
Okay, I can't follow that one - I guess if you had two
artists of the same name? But then I'd go with changing one
of their names. ;)
One of the little niggles I have with Last.fm is that it doesn't
seem to
cope when there's two bands with the same name as I discovered when I
found a photo of some dodgy looking metal people instead of a folk
supergroup that I was expecting!
http://www.last.fm/music/Blue+Murder/+wiki
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