[Developers] Odd ID Showing

[Tom Morris]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at maden.org> wrote:

> The properties are all stripped from the losing GUID and assigned to the
> winning GUID.  There is a link that is kept between them,
> /dataworld/gardening_hint/replaced_by.  The Freebase.com Web client
> transparently follows those links, so GUID-based URIs should work
> indefinitely, but applications that use GUIDs need to look for them
> explicitly.

That's a useful bit of trivia.  Are all these rules that the
freebase.com web client follows enumerated / codified someplace where
someone who was writing an MQL application could find them if they
wanted their app to emulate its behavior?

BTW, here's an example of what Chris was talking about if anyone wants
to see the end result
http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000164382e

Tom