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Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org
Fri Apr 23 09:41:51 BST 2021
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 09:22:47AM +0100, Luke Emmet <luke at marmaladefoo.com> wrote a message of 58 lines which said:
However my main concern is that the semantics of the links are not
what they normally are in gemini. For example the URL links are
schema references, rather than browsable content for users. So the
normal processes of reading a hypertext gemini document and
following a link to another gemini document don't apply and so you
have to approach such an encoded document with the expectation that
many of the links may not be normal links. This is somewhat of a
cognitive overhead.
This specific issue could be solved by requiring that the URIs used asidentifiers are URLs, and reachable and have content. This is a commonrequirment in the world of "linked data" and other semantic stuff<https://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#dereferenceable-uris><https://explore.dublincore.net/competency_index/d2695955/s2696018/s2696061/s2742457/s2742458/>.
Let's quote the inventor of the Web<https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html>: "Use HTTP URIs sothat people can look up those names."
This is an old issue<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Mar/0092>.