A uniform resource identifier scheme for SNMP

One of the World Wide Web characteristics, besides its omnipresence in computer systems, is the adoption of a universal user interface that is used to access several different services that were previously accessed individually by independent applications. The Internet resources started to be identified by URI schemes, a text string with specific syntax and grammar. Although existing for several services such as http, ftp, gopher and news, these identifiers are not used to identify SNMP resources. This paper proposes an URI scheme for identifying SNMP resources and presents some practical scenarios where the existence of such compact and complete identifying mechanism increases flexibility and functionality of network management applications

Identification Schemes for Digital Resources

This paper discusses the various naming and addressing systems used to identify and locate resources in the digital environment. There are various schemes that have been developed for this purpose, like, URL, URN, URC schemes developed by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), PURL developed at OCLC. The publishing industry also has developed the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which is being used for rights management of intellectual property. The specifications and the working of URLs, URNs, PURLs, Handles and DOIs are discussed in detail in this paper

URI, URN e URL, una questione di definizioni : universal versus uniform

This article deals with the concepts of “Uniform Resource Indicator” (URI), “Uniform Resource Names” (URN), “Uniform Resource Characteristics” (URC) and “Uniform Resource Locator” (URL). Although it is not exhaustive because of the vastness of the topic, this article aims to offer a view on the topic to anyone who works and manages with remote electronic resources (RER) in their different aspects and different points of view. The analysed documents are: RFC Request for Comments (available in the IETF Internet Engineering Task Force’s website)and some drafts drawn up by the working groups within W3C The World Wide Web Consortium

Autonomy and Motivation: A Dual-Self Perspective

This paper provides a simple autonomy-based model of human motivation in which a decision maker with divided selves must perform some task. The key presumption of the model is that the brain is not a unitary system which is equipped to achieve a single goal in a systematic manner; rather, it is more like an organization which is hampered by several constraints such as preference incongruence and incomplete exchange (or imperfect recall) of information. Due to these constraints, the model yields behavioral patterns that are consistent with various stylized facts of human motivation, mostly found in social psychology. The main findings of the paper are: (i) more autonomy induces more motivation; (ii) complex tasks are susceptible to motivation crowding out; (iii) small rewards are detrimental to motivation; (iv) intrinsically interesting tasks are susceptible to motivation crowding out.

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee

International audienceInterview of Tim Berners-Lee with Harry Halpin on philosophical engineering