An oldie but a goodie. The importance of 'cool URIs' that don't change might be self-evident, but that doesn't mean it's understood by everyone in a cultural heritage institution. Help us make the case for them here.
More interestingly, what happens if there's more than one URI for a single object? e.g. one in a museum in collection catalogue and a sector-wide list?
How do we get around the fact that museums can change their name, either through re-branding or structural change? And what happens when an object is deaccessioned, or content is created around a loaned object?
What other questions should we be asking?
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Mia said
at 4:25 pm on Apr 20, 2009
Some background from the UK Museums Computer Group email list here:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0806&L=MCG&P=R5208&D=0, https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0806&L=MCG&P=R419 and the whole 'Linking Open Data' thread in the June 2008 archives: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind0806&L=MCG
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind06&L=MCG&P=R50420
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0801&L=MCG&P=R1146
(Hopefully those URLs won't change, because wouldn't that be ironic?)
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