Redirects/PURLs for extensions/vocabularies outside the GBIF namespace

[MattBlissett]

http://rs.gbif.org/terms/1.0/DNADerivedData

This is the Row Type term for the DNA Derived Data extension, and since it's in a namespace we control it conveniently resolves to the latest version of that extension. (Using an Apache .asis response file, generated by the build.)

Every couple of months someone asks for this for a non-GBIF-namespace extension, like EMoF or Audiovisual Core, but these have a Row Type like http://rs.iobis.org/obis/terms/ExtendedMeasurementOrFact which we don't control.

We could add alias terms under rs.gbif.org

We could make a resolver for the latest schema for a RowType

We could add dc:isReplacedBy / dc:replaces values to the extension schema, and add them to the extensions, so users can follow the path to the latest version.

Thoughts welcome.

[mdoering]

I would favor dc:isReplacedBy / dc:replaces as it works well with the static files we have, allows to link to specific versions and still inform users that they are looking at an older version. And you can walk back in time if needed easily.