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There has been an ongoing debate in the semantic web community, for many years now, about whether identifiers for resources should be URLs or URNs. This debate has recently flared up on the HCLS mailing list in the form of URLs+1 LSIDs -1, and since some of you not in the know maybe wondering what all the fuss is about, in this post I will try to explain why identifiers must be URLs and why the semantic web is broken by design.

I have a couple of Freebase invitations to give away. If you're interested, send an email to greg[dot]tyrelle[at]gmail[dot]com. For more information on Freebase see Pierre's posts. Update: they're gone. I waited for 24hrs (timezone issues) and then chose three names from the six requests randomly. Apparently all current users received five invitations, so there should be more invitations out there.

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