[ckan-discuss] CKAN package ID debate

Wed Mar 24 10:39:47 GMT 2010

> On 24 March 2010 10:18, William Waites <william.waites at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> In a similar vein, this has implications for the regular package
>> URIs as well. The RDF descriptions we are making refer to the
>> http://ckan.net/package/foo and if a name is changed then the
>> links are invalidated.
>>
> 
> Is it acceptable for URIs in RDF to redirect?
> 
> Or does the actual URI used need to return data directly?
> 
> (just curious)

I believe URIs in RDF are allowed to redirect (they do on data.gov.uk).

This seems to support that:
http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/

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