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

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:11 AM, William Piel wrote:

> 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.

Note that this is a use-case that's distinctly different from  
canonical resolvable GUIDs for data objects to play with the semweb.  
The above is basically saying that we want bookmarks that people make  
in their web browser to be protected from a future change in how the  
TreeBASE webapp is implemented. For example, if we change to RoR,  
those bookmarks should still work.

This is a worthwhile use-case, but I think it's good to keep in mind  
that it ought to be far less in priority than getting canonical HTTP  
URIs communicated to machine clients.

	-hilmar

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