[gcs-pcs-list] app was: on using URIs

[Edward Summers]

On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Alf Eaton wrote:
> My weblog post available in HTML at <http://hublog.hubmed.org/ 
> archives/001314.html> is also available in RDF/XML at <http:// 
> hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001314.rdf>.

That's a neat hack, it almost seems like a prelude to APP support.

/me stirs the cauldron...

I know that you all have considered the Atom Publishing Protocol as  
possible alternative, as have I. One sticking point for me was that  
it wasn't clear how APP could deliver up different flavors of a  
particular resource (json/mods/dc/etc). I happened to mention this in  
#code4lib and Brian Cassidy suggested that it could be as simple as  
including <link> elements in an Atom entry:

	<link rel="alternate" type="text/mods+xml" href="http:// 
www.example.com/unapi/1234/mods" />

Combined with hAtom [1] (which allows you to express atom in html,  
and was just blessed by tantek^wthe microformats people) I think that  
all the pieces are there for full on copy/paste. But as Dan says,  
working code wins...so until I have time to mock up an example this  
is simply a vapor-idea :-)

//Ed

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom