> In message<4A25272B.1040808@danbri.org>, Dan Brickley
> <danbri@danbri.org> writes
>
>> GeoNames is using 303 (See Other) redirection to distinguish the
>> Concept (thing as is) from the Document about it.
>>
>> For the town Embrun in France we have these two URIs :
>> [1] http://sws.geonames.org/3020251/
>> [2] http://sws.geonames.org/3020251/about.rdf
>
> That's interesting; but some (notably proponents of RESTful URLs) advise
> against using file-type extensions.
>
> Perhaps:
>
> http://sws.geonames.org/3020251/
>
> http://sws.geonames.org/3020251/about
>
> would suffice?
Yup, I'd prefer the latter pattern personally too. But that's a matter
for geonames really; nothing compels us to read the "." as a filename
suffix, and it probably is implemented by some kind of db lookup in
practice.
cheers,
Dan
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