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Subject: Re: [tm-pubsubj] [Fwd: NISO-Sponsored INFO URI SchemePublished]
The people working on this proposal are very tied in with digital libraries and publishing. I think it will be very influential whatever its merits or flaws. --On Friday, January 16, 2004 7:47 AM -0500 Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org> wrote: > Bernard, > > Actually responding to Peter's post below: > > Bernard Vatant wrote: >> Peter >> > <snip> > >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : Peter Brown [mailto:peter@justbrown.net] >> Envoyé : vendredi 16 janvier 2004 11:16 >> À : tm-pubsubj >> Objet : Re: [tm-pubsubj] [Fwd: NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme >> Published] >> >> >> I read through a first draft in November (discussed with a few >> people at the UK XML Topic Maps conference), but frankly there >> was not much interest, as the proposal does not seem to offer >> anything more than, say, Handle-based systems: Further it does >> not seem to qualify as a specific scheme given that it fails the >> test of being able to "deliver" (in a service sense not a >> network or transmission one) anything that the http scheme does >> not already manage. > > Can you say a bit more about how: > >> it fails the test of being able to "deliver" (in a service sense >> not a network or transmission one) anything that the http scheme >> does not already manage. > ? > > As it stands now, the http scheme implies that there is a > resource that can be found by resolving the URI. > > For example, I could write: http://www.loc.gov/lccn/2002022641, > but most users would expect that to resolve to something. (I just > checked and it does not.) > > So, without constructing any such URIs, the Library of Congress > can simply say, here is the format to using Library of Congress > Control Numbers as identifiers. > > That seems like a significant advantage to me, at least from the > standpoint of using legacy identifiers, of which there are quite > a few. > > If your argument is that one "could" use the http scheme to the > same effect, I suppose that is true, but is contrary to the > expectation of users. > > Note further the limitation of the character set that can be used > under the http scheme and one starts to see real limitations in > terms of using it instead of this most recent proposal. > > Hope you are having a great day! > > Patrick > > >> BTW, this was the same issue that put the proposed DOI: scheme >> in the dock >> >> Peter >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the >> roster of the OASIS TC), go to >> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/tm-pubsubj/members/ >> leave_workgroup.php. >> >> > > > -- > Patrick Durusau > Director of Research and Development > Society of Biblical Literature > Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org > Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems > Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model > > Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! > > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the > roster of the OASIS TC), go to > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/tm-pubsubj/members/l > eave_workgroup.php. > --------------------------------------- Stringer-Hye, Suellen Vanderbilt University Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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