Thanks,

That's a neat hack - helps if you want URIs to be dereferenced to
something that provides most of information about the subject (the
author of the blog in this case).

Note - usually in WordPress the URL ./author/username points to
author's archive page. It is the closest thing (URI) to the
sioc:User's page that I could find. Hence it is actually a page about
the author (and his posts) and differs from the main page as it has
only posts written by a particular person.

See an example at: http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/author/cloud/

That being said there are cases when I've had to think a new, not
existing URI for some concept. E.g., there is such a problem for
B2evolution SIOC exporter - the blog engine does not provide author's
profile or archive page.

So what URI if any shall we use to identify a sioc:User in this case?

Best,
Uldis

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On 7/8/06, HarryChen wrote:
>
> Forgot to mention. This idea came when I was browsing my site's SIOC
> profile in the SIOC browser, which is a pretty neat application.
>
> - Harry
>
> HarryChen wrote:
> > I discover that the SIOC WordPress plugin automatically generates URI
> > for WordPress blog users. For example,
> >
> > http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/author/harrychen/.
> >
> > This is fine as long as the consumer of this URI only cares about the
> > associated semantics of the URI. However, if the consumer wants to
> > treat this URI as a URL and want to see the content that is linked from
> > the URI, the above behavior is quite undesirable.
> >
> > I did a quick hack [1] adding a URL rewrite rule on my web server. Now
> > if you visit the above URI in your browser, you will be redirected to a
> > page that is more meaningful to a human.
> >
> > Summary: URL rewrite rules are useful in building semantic web
> > applications. :-)
> >
> > [1]
> > http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2006/07/08/using-url-rewrite-in-semantic-web-applications
> >
> > - Harry

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