On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:48 AM, O.Stephens <o.steph...@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> What we are considering is the best way to represent a web page (or similar - > pdf etc.) in an OpenURL. It looks like we could do something as simple as: > > http://resolver.address/? > &url_ver=Z39.88-2004 > &url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx > &rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk Wait, are you using the target URL as a uniquely identifying key? URLs can change not only location, but meaning. Consider: What if www.bbc.co.uk changes address, and www.bbc.co.uk becomes something else you want to link to? Then you'd have &rft_id=http://www.bbc.co.uk really refer to http://new.example.co.uk, and you'd need to use a dummy rft_id to refer to whatever new content lives at http://www.bbc.co.uk. Unless I'm totally confused as to what you're trying to do, this seems like a bad idea. An artificial key is a better choice. If you want something like tr.im, use something like tr.im. Cheers, -Nate
