Re: [Treebase-devel] Some results of testing with a user

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> A machine will  not benefit from this, and I'm not sure how the human user would. 

Our current Web UI only explicitly advertises the purl-phylows URI to the submitter and only for the study_id. This means that some people, seeking to link to other objects in TreeBASE, will be using right-click-copy as a lazy shortcut instead of reading the documentation. To prevent proliferation of synonymous /phyows/ links getting out there, we decided to use purl.org links wherever /phylows/ links are present. 

So the lazy "human user" benefits because right-click-copy is a quick way for them to bookmark objects in TreeBASE without having to edit the copied link to comply with our purl.org standard. 

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