> Hey Daniel, > > Bibsonomy seems to suffer from the same problem as CiteULike - urls > which convey no meaning. An example url id from CiteULike is 2434335, > and one from Bibsonomy is 29be860f0bdea4a29fba38ef9e6dd6a09. I hope to > continue to steer the conversation away from that direction. These IDs > guarantee uniqueness, but I believe that we can create keys that both > guarantee uniqueness and convey some meaning to humans. Consider that > this key will be embedded in wiki articles any time a source is cited. > It's important that it make some sense.
Oh, I didn#t mean we should use hashes or IDs as keys or identifiers in the URL. I mean we can employ the hashing technique to detect dupes. Because you will inadvertably get information about the same thing under two different keys, because of issues with translitteration, etc. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
