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Subject: Re: [office-metadata] naming schema



On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Serious question. Must we define URIs as opaque for all purposes? Or 
> is that up to the application using the URI?

If we agree the answer to the second of your questions is "yes" does 
that not suggest that we are defining them as opaque? We are not saying 
how you must create URIs (or IDs); only that it doesn't matter beyond 
that they serve their purpose of being unique and so forth.

I'll give you an example from my use case. For citations, it would be a 
good thing if different applications settled on using the same URI 
conventions for identifying citation sources. Certainly it wouldn't be 
necessary, but it would be nice.

So how would I propose to encourage that? I would point developers to 
information about using URNs for ISBNs and ISSNS, the info URI schema 
for other bibliographic identifiers (DOIs, pudmed ids, and so forth), 
and tell them to use HTTP URIs for online resources. Oh, and the new 
WorldCat catalog can be a fantastic source for HTTP ids.

But that would be nothing more than a suggested best practice. The 
suggestion is to encourage use of the same URIs to refer to the same 
things. But I am still assuming the URIs per se are opaque (their form 
is not intrinsically meaningful).

Bruce



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