Fifth International World Wide Web Conference

Information structure design: important issues

3. Objects are referenced by name + type

4. URL location of an object is with type or in concierge

The former alternative works if all objects of that type are stored together. Example:

authors : types =
  {ACCESSMODE ~ SUBDIR,
   ACCESSPATH ~ [file:/info/www/ext/brs/A],
   PROPERTIES  ~ 
      {LASTNAME ~ STRING,
       FIRSTNAME ~ STRING,
        ...
       WEB ~ STRING}, 
   TYPICAL-MEMBER ~ Pattern}

This defines that the location of the descriptive text file for the object Baral:authors is

   file:/info/www/ext/brs/A/Baral/descrip.horl

Towards a World-Wide Data Base (E.Sandewall)