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]/
