Intro, Part 4: More than just Mapping
Many people see URLs and think only of technical concerns. You can see this thinking in websites implemented using Vignette and in most websites implemented using Microsoft’s ASP.NET. This we feel this shortsightedness is a serious error in judgment.
Alternately, we believe that the study of URL Design should be an important component of Web Science. And, like Web Science, we believe URL Design must consider many factors to truly optimize Uniform Resource Locator use for both man and machine. Those factors that URL designers really should consider minimally include the following:
- Cognition,
- Culture,
- Business process,
- Law,
- Economics,
- Politics,
- Sociology, and finally
- Technology
Clearly URL Design is not just about mapping files and scripts on a server.