Comments on: Generic Identifiers aka Web Scale Identifiers http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_gall/2008/12/08/generic-identifiers-aka-web-scale-identifiers/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Stu Charlton http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_gall/2008/12/08/generic-identifiers-aka-web-scale-identifiers/comment-page-1/#comment-3638 Stu Charlton Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:08:17 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_gall/2008/12/08/generic-identifiers-aka-web-scale-identifiers/#comment-3638 One reason why I think Semantic Web technologies like OWL and RDF are two important next steps to grow in mainstream adoption. Persistent URIs are fairly to interpret with constructs such as owl:sameAs. One reason why I think Semantic Web technologies like OWL and RDF are two important next steps to grow in mainstream adoption. Persistent URIs are fairly to interpret with constructs such as owl:sameAs.

]]> By: Tom Scott http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_gall/2008/12/08/generic-identifiers-aka-web-scale-identifiers/comment-page-1/#comment-1676 Tom Scott Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:33:19 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_gall/2008/12/08/generic-identifiers-aka-web-scale-identifiers/#comment-1676 I'm glad you approve of the approach - and thanks for the links. In terms of the non-human friendly GUIDs - I agree that it is better if the URLs are human friendly but what is more important is that they are persistent so I do have sympathy with MusicBrainz (although they could be shorter!) I’m glad you approve of the approach – and thanks for the links.

In terms of the non-human friendly GUIDs – I agree that it is better if the URLs are human friendly but what is more important is that they are persistent so I do have sympathy with MusicBrainz (although they could be shorter!)

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