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What is the intended role of the various URLs for a dataset?

Open ldodds opened this issue 10 years ago • 0 comments

The code has various URIs for a dataset:

  • access_url -- which is the url given by the user, however the data might ultimately be loaded from a different location
  • uri/url -- I think these are always aliases of the above, so could be removed?
  • dataset_uri -- the actual URI of the dataset, which may/may not be the same as the above

It might be simpler to go with a distinction of:

  • access_url -- location from which metadata is loaded; this might get updated to reflect, e.g. autodiscovery links
  • uri -- the identifier for the dataset, derived from the graph or other metdata

What do you think?

ldodds avatar Sep 23 '13 16:09 ldodds