CLEARLY, no one wants to see URLs that point do different resources
combined into one! But at the same time, it's just as clearly somewhat
misleading (and personally an annoyance) when URLs that DO point to
the same site are listed no differently from URLs that point to
different sites.
Well put. Maybe actually comparing resources could be a step in the process? Identity is always (or usually) a hard problem. This is why I went on my little (perhaps orthogonal) spiel about tag consolidation. It boils down to the same thing on some levels. How do you address the fragmented identities of resources indicated by various URIs and concepts indicated by various tags?
I don't see how this could be effectively determined
automatically. Some kind of voting system might be more reliable, but
what happens to a user's tags when two URLs are combined? And couldn't
this be gamed or vandalized a bit?
Explicit voting actually seems unlikely to succeed, to me. I guess that I should have disclaimed that as a bit of a straw man. I think that it has to be 90%+ inferred. An actual test of the resource makes some checking possible (see above) but may be costly and misleading in a small number of cases. You would need some sort of acceptable edit distance. I think that synonyms are better than coercive consolidation but may complicate things internally. It _is_ a sin to just wack some data because the system thinks it knows better. It can make people downright mad when software does that (M$ smell).
- Luke
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