Intro, Part 6: What makes us URL Design Experts?
So what makes us “the” expert on URL Design as we are not (yet?) associated with any standards body like the W3C or the IETF? Nothing really, other than we have a keen interest in the URL Design and its ramifications, and are proactively devoting time to this initiative.
For me personally, I’ve spent lots of time spent studying any and every bit of writing I could find regarding URL Design, and even more time spent pondering the subject and writing about it. Lastly, it was my writing about “Well Designed URLs” and other’s subsequent interest that lead me to start this initiative.
Plainly put, I and the others involved are the first to take significant initiative to study and then advocate for User-Centered URL Design. We feel so strongly about this that we believe it should be taught in universities as part of the new field of “Web Science.”
As with any body of wisdom it has to start somewhere, and because no one else was focusing on URL Design, we decided we would start I here; it’s that simple.
That said, if you feel that you have something significant to contribute to URL Design then by all means join us and become one of the experts yourself. And if we do a good job, we may become recognized by the W3C and/or the IETF, and that will make us the experts. :)