What is This?

This document is the Samedi Studios URI Schema. Though much of the web is ephemeral, the web's structure is stable to the extent that portions of it are permanent, or semi-premanent. This document seeks to describe the portions of the samedi-studios.com which are meant to have permanent URIs, and as a result should be "safe" to reference in links. Additionaly, this document describes the pattern of those URIs.

Who is this for?

This document is intended for external authors who are considering linking to some portion of the samedi-studios.com domain. It is also meant for studio members, to guide their usage of URI on the domain.

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Press URI Schema

We have devised a URI Schema for Samedi Studios Press. The permanent top-level paths will be:

• http://press.samedi-studios.com/publications/
• http://press.samedi-studios.com/drafts/

Permanent documents will be available in publications. These documents should be considered 'safe' to link to, and their URIs should remain invariant. Draft documents, those not ready to be considered published

All publications will have an ID. This ID will contain only lowercase alphanumeric characters, plus underscore. If a publication is available in some form, such as as an HTML document, then the URI of the document in that form will be the ID, extended with the canonical extension for that form, such as $ID.html.

Living Documents

Living documents, such as dictionaries and other such reference material, are permanent documents; but it is inaccurate to associate them with a year of publication. These living documents will posses URIs of the general form:

• http://press.samedi-studios.com/publications/living/$ID/

Thus, a living document whose ID was web_ontology, which was available in HTML, would be available at the URL:

• http://press.samedi-studios.com/publications/living/web_ontology/web_ontology.html

Dated Documents

Dated publications will posses a lowercased ID generated from the last name of the principal author, the year, and a textified form of the title. For example, if this was Profio, 2004, and My Life As An Activist, then the ID might be profio2004activist. These documents will be available not in the publications path, but in subpaths based upon their year of publication. Thus, our example would posses the URI:

• http://press.samedi-studios.com/publications/2004/profio2004activist/profio2004activist.html