On Jul 25, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
To what degree is it a best practice to implement "cool" URLs as
redirects?
The essential thing is consistency. It is common practice to use
redirects from URIs that name resources. Often this is done so that it
will be possible, as is proposed in the Shared Name project, to move
hosting to a different server without having to notify people who have
made statements about the resource (or bookmarked them) and have them
adjust their content. In you case you are using a redirect from the
same domain, but you might consider using PURLs for you public facing
URLs.
If you do so, be consistent - make all RDF statements use the
preferred URLs, as well as all links in the HTML. For a dose of good
measure you might want to use rel=canonical in your html.
This sounds like sound advice. Thank you.
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Eric Lease Morgan
Infomotions, Inc.
