Re: [office-metadata] Consistent Identification?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Bruce,

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

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> On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
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>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
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>>> No, IRIs facilitate integration with RDF based solutions and not 
>>> "network-based solutions."
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>> Not true. IRIs are used in non-RDF contexts for identification too.
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> Just to clarify: the obvious one I was thinking about is Atom. All 
> posts must include an id, which must be an IRI.
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Good point. For example your post had the ID: Message-Id: 
<dbed8369338d1905c8ad6debf0c6ff93@OpenDocument.us>

But note that usenet posting are recommended to have unique ids while 
"current", but usenet IDs can be re-used after some unspecified period 
of time.

Just to illustrate that you may need more than a single IRI to have a 
unique identifier if you are dealing with years worth of usenet postings.

I don't have any axe to grind against IRIs but I don't see them as a one 
size fits all solution to questions of identification.

If my requirements are not satisfied by a single IRI, I would like to 
have the ability to go beyond that.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick


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Patrick Durusau
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