Re: feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-28 Thread Eric Jain
Matthias Samwald wrote: Yes, with most current web-browsers (those that are not aware of the embedded RDF), this could require users to make two clicks instead of one. I do have the Firefox Operator plug-in installed, but I don't quite understand how this would allow me to skip the intermediar

Re: feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-27 Thread Matthias Samwald
Eric Jain wrote: > > http://whatizit.neurocommons.org/template_303.htm > > That's nice, but when I show such pages to our biologists, they still think > it's some kind of error page, with all the gobbledygook about "commitment", > "representation" and "URI"... Certainly there is still a lot o

Re: feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-27 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Eric Jain wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also prefer that the file extensions are preserved, but is it really such a big deal? Requiring the redirect service to fetch the ID from the middle of the URI definitely makes things more complicated, and it is mostly a matter of taste. Th

Re: feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Jain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also prefer that the file extensions are preserved, but is it really such a big deal? Requiring the redirect service to fetch the ID from the middle of the URI definitely makes things more complicated, and it is mostly a matter of taste. There are good reasons

Re: feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-27 Thread samwald
EricJ wrote: >Here are my own reasons for not using > them in UniProt so far (despite the fact that I recognize that there is a > big need for someone to provide URIs for databases without usable URIs). > > 1. Given a PURL with "uniprot" and "P00750", it can't be rewritten to > http://beta.unip

Re: feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Jain
Jonathan Rees wrote: Thanks. I guess I thought it was obvious, but nothing seems to be in this territory. I added 7. likelihood of adoption by uncommitted HCLS members [added 8/25] 8. ease of adoption [added 8/25] Some specific questions to consider: 1. What effort is required for a data

feasibility; purl.org/commons

2007-08-26 Thread Jonathan Rees
Thanks. I guess I thought it was obvious, but nothing seems to be in this territory. I added 7. likelihood of adoption by uncommitted HCLS members [added 8/25] 8. ease of adoption [added 8/25] About the http://purl.org/commons/ URIs, I think it would be wrong to interpret their non-adop