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An example showing different paths to the same resource as an alternative to content negotiation
Why would this be an improvementJon: why is it necessary to have multiple paths (commons/record, commons/html, and commons/xml)? There seems to be concern that content negotiation is the equivalent of polysemy (one name, many meanings), but this partitions every identifier into yet another segment
From URI-based Naming Systems for Science
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