[Developers] rdf auto-discovery and dbpedia

[Ed Summers]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Scott Meyer <sm at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Suppose, for example, that there is another space topic which "means"
> the same thing.  While we try and prevent such duplication from occurring,
> it can happen.  When we discover duplication we pick one topic as the winner
> (usually the one with the most data) and merge all data *and keys* from the
> loser to the winner.

In this case wouldn't you also have a "key" URL that incorporated the
name of the other 'space topic' such as: en/outer-space?

> So, if your code refers to "/en/space" it will "just work" after a merge
> but if you refer to guids directly your code will have to check for
> topics which have been merged and follow a link to the new topic,
> if necessary.

Assuming that I am right about en/outer-space, what would happen to it
when it was merged into en/space? Would /en/outer-space 404 like the
GUID based identifier?

In general I don't see how the problem of two identifiers for the same
thing is solved with 4 identifiers for the same thing. But perhaps I'm
missing something.

//Ed