When the BBC make their mind up on this matter, they should collect together all these various CRIDs and URIs in one place on their site for the benefit of others, accessible via any browser - they could call the minisite "CRID Land"...
... I'll get my coat > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Leighton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 July 2007 12:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:38:41AM +0100, Chris Sizemore wrote: > > yes, i agree that TV-Anytime supplies some of the > requirement (indeed, > > perhaps everything brian was suggesting... brian?) > > > > but does TVA, despite the URN (the crid, i.e. > > crid://my.id.creator/xxxxxxxxxxx88r; > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crid), > > supply the "on the Web" part? > > > > depending on one's philosophical bent, that's one of the potential > > problems with URNs & thus CRIDs: they can't (easily) be > dereferenced, > > in the way that a "regular old" URL can be... URNs aren't > "on the Web"... > > > > i guess what i'm saying is that the "regular old" URL for a > programme > > Episode should be just as "permanent" as the TVA CRID -- > > I think that absolutely there ought to be a persistent and > hackable URL. Hackable in the sense that Jakob Nielsen uses > it (it is one of the points I happen to agree with him on). > This indicates that it is also meaningful to a human and > relatively short. > > > and because > > it's permanent AND "on the Web", the "regular old" URL is even more > > useful than the CRID. > > For people with web browsers (or other tech that operates via HTTP). > > -- > Andy Leighton => [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" > - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
