On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Richard Light <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> .uk>, "Ottevanger, Jeremy" <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>> Plus I note, as well as the "actual" URL you provide a reference URL
>> that resolves to the actual (current) one: presumably to be regarded as
>> a permanent URL? Great stuff.
>
> Agreed.
Thanks for the kind comments regarding the site, we hope to make it
even better over time
>> I don't suppose there's a data view of the
>> object info too is there? (trying to mesh this with the linked data
>> thread...)
>
> Doesn't look that way. If you access the persistent URL:
>
> http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/object/EA1956.1578
>
> using Curl, it just does a classic 302 redirection and gives you the web
> page you started from:
>
> http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/921/object/1038
>
> even if you ask for application/rdf+xml in the Accept header. However, all
> it needs is a bit more development. Check the Accept header in the HTTP
> request, and if RDF is requested, issue a "303 See Other" response instead,
> quoting the URL at which an RDF representation of this object can be found,
> e.g.:
>
> http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/object/rdf/EA1956.1578
>
> (Then write code to generate said RDF at that address, of course.)
Some of this is a little over my head (I'm not a techie, though not
completely ignorant of what goes on under the hood), but I think I
understand what you're getting at here in terms of creating an RDF
representation of an object record that could be linked to. What
benefits would this give and what would this enable people to do with
the data? Thanks
regards
Paul
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