Zhao2004using presented by Tim Lebo 9 oct 2008 Joshua Taylor 1
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- Question is for the Presentation: Zhao2004using presented by Tim Lebo 9 oct 2008
- Question is asked by: Joshua Taylor
- The Question is: The authors give some reasons for using LSIDs as opposed to URLs, but I'm not sure that I understand their reasoning. The "perceived benefits" include: "1a) … [The] workflow system needs to pass raw data between services without any metadata annotations; 1b) Data and metadata can reside in different locations; 1c) Metadata may be attached to resources for which we have no control." These are all achievable using HTTP and traditional URLs. "2) An explicit social convention committment to maintaining immutable and permanent data." [emphasis added] If the convention is only social and not technical, why not create something like PURL for life science data, with the agreement that the resources at the other end of the permanent URLs will not change?
Of course, they do make the point that there is significant LSID support (e.g., from IBM), so there must be something to it. What's so useful about LSIDs?
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| Question asked | The authors give some reasons for using LS … The authors give some reasons for using LSIDs as opposed to URLs, but I'm not sure that I understand their reasoning. The "perceived benefits" include: "1a) … [The] workflow system needs to pass raw data between services without any metadata annotations; 1b) Data and metadata can reside in different locations; 1c) Metadata may be attached to resources for which we have no control." These are all achievable using HTTP and traditional URLs. "2) An explicit social convention committment to maintaining immutable and permanent data." [emphasis added] If the convention is only social and not technical, why not create something like PURL for life science data, with the agreement that the resources at the other end of the permanent URLs will not change? Of course, they do make the point that there is significant LSID support (e.g., from IBM), so there must be something to it. What's so useful about LSIDs? thing to it. What's so useful about LSIDs? |
| Question asked by | Joshua Taylor + |
| Question for the Presentation | Zhao2004using presented by Tim Lebo 9 oct 2008 + |
