About OECD StatLink
OECD,
Apr 10, 2009
George Siemens points to this, which I confess I expected to be a pay service (consistently with OECD's previous efforts), but which (so far) appears to be open. The idea is to identify a URL with a certain type of data. The web site explain: "A StatLink, like the DOI on which it is based, is a persistent identifier in that, once registered, it never changes." OK, fine. But what nobody has ever explained, why not just use a URL that never changes, instead of the whole DOI rigmarole? Oh yeah, and this idea of making a URL stand for data? That's what REST does, except it returns the data in a usable format, and not in an Excel spreadsheet.
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