Dear all, Why do we need human-readable URIs? Any row in a certain database table could be identified by unique (surrogate) key. An algorithm should only generate different URI for different resources. So, we need to define a difference between resources (or their representations).
If identifier should not have any additional inner structure (and meaning), then we could use GUID. For example, "http://url.de/E19_ZZZ";, where ZZZ is GUID. Add name or content of resource into URI is not a very good idea. Alternatively, we could use hashing and add any desirable structure into URI. For example, "http://url.de/cityname_streetname_HASHCODE";. How to make a URI out of DNA? Best regards, Vladimir 2008/11/27 martin <[email protected]>: > Dear All, > > I suggest to discuss in more details policies to use URIs in RDF or OWL > instances. > > For instance, how to describe a museum: > > How to distinguish the Website from the Actor, if we refer to the museums > domain name: > MUSEUM/http://www.gnm.de/ ? > > http://www.gnm.de/MUSEUM ? > http://www.gnm.de/ACTOR? > > If we have a museum URI, we could generate all object IDs by inventory number > + museum URL: > > http://www.gnm.de/OBJECT/AB_45678900_1870 ? > http://www.gnm.de/PHYSICAL_OBJECT/... ? > http://www.gnm.de/CRM_E19/... ? > > Does anyone know, if the Getty ULAN suggests a good practice for URIs for > ULAN entries? > > I believe these are issues that should be easy to resolve, and should be > quickly resolved. > > More complicated: How to you make a URI out of an postal address. Any idea, > examples??? > > Best, > > Martin > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | > Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | > | Email: [email protected] | > | > Center for Cultural Informatics | > Information Systems Laboratory | > Institute of Computer Science | > Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | > | > Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | > | > Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig >
