On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Eric Jain wrote:
Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
The point of having the PURLs is to ensure that there is a
mechanism for handling three cases that LSIDs were intended to
address (but which can be addressed without the trouble of
introducing a separate resolving mechanism)
1) To be immune from the "actual URL of the representation"
changing. (e.g. beta.uniprot.org goes out of beta)
1) We'll do a 301 "permanent" redirection, promise.
Yes, but how will we handle the case where some set of people make
statements with the subject being
http://beta.uniprot.org/entry/P12345 and another set makes statements
about http://uniprot.org/entry/P12345. They are really talking about
the same subject, but our semantic web agent won't know that. If we
had used the PURL, then we wouldn't have a problem.
Comments to your other points in separate email.
-Alan
