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measurementValueID as URL of a textual web page, e.g. of the instrument? #26

Open meliezer opened 2 years ago

meliezer commented 2 years ago

I wonder whether it's allowed using the measurementValueID for a URL once a vocabulary page is n/a. An example: measurementType Sampling instrument name measurementTypeID http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/Q01/current/Q0100002/ measurementValue avvistApp measurementValueID https://www.inogs.it/en/node/1597 Yes, I could ask for a new L22 term, but my question is general.

Cheers, Menashè

pieterprovoost commented 2 years ago

Yes, that sounds reasonable to me, your ID is a valid URI.

bart-v commented 2 years ago

I don't fully agree. There is more requirements than only "a valid URI"

Ideally, it needs to be resolvable, persistent and globally unique. https://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10989 measurementValueID (new): An identifier for facts stored in the in the column measurementValue (global unique identifier, URI). This identifier can reference a controlled vocabulary (e.g. for sampling instrument names, methodologies, life stages) or reference a methodology paper with a DOI.

Which is not really the case with a Drupal content page.

this rather belongs into remarks or similar

meliezer commented 2 years ago

What about https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.divulgando.avvistapp&hl=en&gl=US ? Such URI is quite stable! Yes, in the paper having a stable URI for a web page that could be changed is not mentioned, but I believe it's not a problem.

bart-v commented 2 years ago

The main problem is that it's not a controlled vocabulary, and not resolvable This is useless for a machine.

meliezer commented 2 years ago

A machine will get HTML page instead of PDF in case I write the same text in a DOI which points to a PDF. I don't see a big difference.

bart-v commented 2 years ago

Not really A DOI can be resolved to machine readable information, a PDF or HTML not

meliezer commented 2 years ago

The DOI metadata, e.g. DataCite XML file. I understand. Otherwise one should point to a URI of a web page which has JSON-LD or similar.