Message-Id: <199602062341.RAA02395@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 16:54:32 -0600 From: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez <mailto:agarza@CI.MTY.ITESM.MX> Subject: Re: URLs To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
True, the title of the document pointed to by that URL should be what the User gets to see, and it should be left to the webcat admins to make sure that those URLs remain valid.Alas, URL validating is dirty work, but should be done IMO.
_alex
On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Art Zemon wrote:
> I watched some discussion fly by as I plowed though a ton of back email... and
I > want to toss a thought out. Isn't publishing a URL that refers to a specific
bib > record like telling a patron that they will find the card for Huck Finn in the
> seventh drawer from the top, as the 57th card in the drawer? Worse, isn't
> publishing a URL that refers to a specific holdings record like telling a
patron > that they will find Huck Finn in the fourth aisle, nineth shelf, 6.7 inches
from > the left?
>
> The URL is really an implementation detail of your library automation system.
I > don't think you really want to publish that.
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