Hi Richard!

You are right, the Data access documentation did not properly distinguish
between concept URI and data URL. I have fixed this now. URLs of the form
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3807415.rdf are not canonical at all - we
support them for convenience, but they should not be used as identifiers, and
should not show up in our output anywhere.

You can see the changes I made to the documentation here:
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%3AData_access&type=revision&diff=245768426&oldid=236886315

Sorry about the confusion.

-- daniel

Am 27.08.2015 um 09:20 schrieb Richard Light:
> This described a postfix pattern which delivers RDF XML (e.g. [2]). However,
> this pattern is itself subject to content negotiation, and an initial 303
> response converts the URL to e.g. [3].  I am interested in knowing what 
> pattern
> of URL will deliver RDF/XML /without /requiring content negotiation, and the
> answer to that question is not [2] but [3].  This matters, for example, in
> scenarios where one wants to use XSLT's document() function to retrieve an RDF
> XML response directly.  The URL pattern [2] will fail.  So the documentation 
> is
> currently unhelpful.
[...]
> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access
> [2] https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3807415.rdf
> [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q3807415.rdf


-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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