Re: [Handle-info] Handles in Tweets

[Robert Tupelo-Schneck <schneck@cnri.reston.va.us>]

The obvious starting place is with http://hdl.handle.net/ URIs.  Those just resolve, and can also be recognized as handles by apps.

It's 23 characters on top of the length of the handle though.  You could run a handle proxy on a shorter domain.  You could put that URI through your favorite URI shortener, but then it is harder to recognize as a handle.  You could also create a handle shortener.  If your handles happen to be DOI names, you could use the already existing shortdoi.org.  

Robert

On 2010-04-28, at 23:09, Daniel Rehak wrote:

> Hi Folks
> 
> Does anyone have any opinions about best practices for putting handles
> into a tweet?  Does anyone have any experience in doing this "at
> scale".
> 
> My criteria:
> -- most people won't care that its a handle, but that it just resolves.
> -- some apps will be able know that its a handle and will do native
> resolution (but opacity is OK).
> -- minimizing size in the tweet is important
> -- might be able to put additional info into the tweet annotation
> fields, but prefer not to (just because we don't know how tweet
> annotations work yet).
> 
> Please post suggestions to the list.
> Thanks.
>    - Dan
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