Re: [Handle-info] Handles in Tweets

[Larry Lannom <llannom@cnri.reston.va.us>]

If there were sufficient interest, we would consider a shorter domain name aliased (CNAME) to the current proxy. As Robert points out, we do have a DOI shortening service and could apply the same principles to the handle proxies. At the least, it would alias to existing handles.

As to best practices, I have nothing add to Dan's list, other than to point out that there would be nothing special about the way those handles resolve, unless some twitter application understood and did something special with handles, which seems unlikely.

Larry

On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Robert Tupelo-Schneck wrote:

> 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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