Two point to include... -----Alan Ruttenberg wrote: -----
> Problem statement: > > Enable third parties to register the fact that they have additional > statements to provide about something that a URI denotes, in such a > way as to make it easy for anyone to discover this fact. Do this in a > way which requires minimal coordination (ideally none) between the > minter of the original URI, the provider of the additional > statements, and the consumer of all the statements. I first would like to mention to this group that statements about resources, as stated in the above example, is something the POWDER groups is trying to define: http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/ This may be a logical topic for interactions between the groups. Second (for you Rails fans)... > Configure the purl server so that http://purl.org/provide-about/a.b/c/ > d/e redirects to something akin to a structured wiki page or a REST > service (let us assume for the moment that whoever currently provides > the LSID WSDL that contains this information currently is the > provider of this service). The RESTful strategy is a very simple a practical method for re-routing URLs, and is used heavily in Ruby-Rails (see http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/NamedRoutes); it is also the basis of how I can establish stable URI in my projects even though the actual data site gets moved. Eric