On 4 July 2012 15:40, Michael Smethurst <michael.smethurst(a)bbc.co.uk> wrote:
"Aesthetic concerns about uris tend to make me shiver :-)"
As a side note: I believe the point about semantic, human-intelligable
Wikipedia-Style URIs and Page identifiers is that they allow
DEBUGGING. Wikipedia uses non-opaque Identifiers for the same reason
that programmers tend to write code with "Ticket.VoucherID" rather
than "T12321.A237423".
In my observation, numeric-URI-based systems like Drupal tend to have
minimal Links inside their content pages (i.e. beyond the menu
system), mediawiki-based system tend to have hundreds of links inside
their content. I believe this is so because links inside Drupal pages
usually point to something like
http://drupal.org/node/21947/ which
makes it impossible for humans to easily check whether this is an
intentional or erroneous link.
There are certainly areas where software can completely eliminate the
need for humans to check links; in these cases opaque links are
desirable. The question is:
Which is the case for Wikidata?
Gregor