Not found example URLs found in the draft on Stable identifiers

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Reporter: feedback bot
Type: Bug
Summary: Not found example URLs found in the draft on Stable identifiers
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2013-08-29 13:51:31.907
Updated: 2015-03-02 16:27:02.839
        
        
Description: This URL appears as an example in the draft on Stable identifiers for GBIF mediated data - but the message is "page not found

*Reporter*: Isabel Calabuig
*E-mail*: [mailto:icalabuig@snm.ku.dk]]]>
    

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Created: 2013-09-09 12:47:13.281
Updated: 2013-09-09 12:47:13.281
        
The source of the link cited in the issue is the Proposed action on "Stable identifiers for GBIF mediated data.pdf" circulated internally on July 9th, 2013. The error occurs because of the document format: dashes inside the URL apparently use a character that is not recognized when copy/pasted into the browser bar, get URL-encoded, thus breaking the key to the record
from pdf:
http://uat.gbif.org/dataset/846d0710‐f762‐11e1‐a439‐00145eb45e9a
results in browser:
http://uat.gbif.org/dataset/846d0710%E2%80%90f762%E2%80%9011e1%E2%80%90a439%E2%80%9000145eb45e9a
(visible like this only when re-copy/pasting into a text editor)
working link:
http://uat.gbif.org/dataset/846d0710-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
(note the slightly shorter row length to the first link above due to differences in the dash character)
    

Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: this probably has broader implications - anytime somebody copy/pastes a uuid
Created: 2013-09-26 20:32:05.732
Updated: 2013-09-26 20:32:05.732

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-01-20 11:41:32.596
Updated: 2014-01-20 11:41:53.746
        
The problem is that the PDF version does not use a proper dash for the UUID, but some smaller unicode dash. This needs to be fixed in the PDF!


Bad UUID:
http://uat.gbif.org/dataset/846d0710‐f762‐11e1‐a439‐00145eb45e9a

Good UUID:
http://uat.gbif.org/dataset/846d0710-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a