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Components of the URI

An example showing different paths

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for different representations of a resource as an alternative to content negotiation

Jon: 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 adds another component to every identifier, and we anticipate that only a relative few of our identifiers will offer more than one form of responserepresentation
From URI-based Naming Systems for Science

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