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Subject: FW: [Discuss-DOI] Announcement: The "info" URI scheme


FYI

Matthew Dovey
Oxford University 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-doi-admin@doi.org 
> [mailto:discuss-doi-admin@doi.org] On Behalf Of Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:57 PM
> To: discuss-doi@doi.org
> Subject: [Discuss-DOI] Announcement: The "info" URI scheme
> 
> Hi All:
> 
>  
> 
> The following message about the newly proposed "info" URI 
> Scheme may be of interest to some members on this list. The 
> "info" scheme will allow common identifiers to be used on the 
> Web without specifying any resolution mechanisms.
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> Tony
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> Announcing a new Internet-Draft for an Informational RFC, to 
> allow commonly used identifiers to be part of the Web:
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>   The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with 
> Identifiers in Public Namespaces
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> 
>       Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory
> 
>       Tony Hammond - Elsevier
> 
>       Eamonn Neylon - Manifest Solutions
> 
>       Stuart L. Weibel - OCLC Online Computer Library Center 
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> The draft is available at:
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> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandesompel-info-uri-00.txt 
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> a. Purpose of the "info" URI scheme: 
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> There exist many information assets with identifiers in 
> public namespaces that are not referenceable by URI schemes. 
> Examples of such namespaces include Dewey Decimal 
> Classifications [1], Library of Congress Control Numbers 
> (LCCN) [2], NASA Astrophysics Data System Bibcodes [3], and 
> Open Archives Initiative (OAI) identifiers [4], among others. 
>  The "info" URI scheme will facilitate the referencing of 
> information assets that have identifiers in such public 
> namespaces by means of URIs. The "info" scheme is based on a 
> Registry that invites the registration of public namespaces 
> used for the identification of information assets, by the 
> parties that maintain the namespaces.
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>  
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> For example, assuming that the namespace of Dewey Decimal 
> Classifications (ddc:) and the namespace of Library of 
> Congress Control Numbers (lccn:) would be registered by their 
> respective authorities, then:
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> * the Dewey Decimal Classification 22/eng//004.678 (for the 
> term "Internet") could be expressed as the "info" URI 
> <info:ddc/22/eng//004.678>
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> * the Library of Congress Control Number 2002022641 could be 
> expressed as the "info" URI <info:lccn/2002022641>
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> b. Background of this effort
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> The effort to create the "info" URI scheme emerged from the 
> NISO process to standardize the OpenURL Framework for 
> context-sensitive services [5], which requires the ability to 
> describe resources by means of globally recognizable 
> identifiers.  The Draft Standard for Trial Use released for 
> Public Comment introduced a "proprietary" naming architecture 
> which allowed information assets to be referenced by means of 
> widely used non-URI identifiers (e.g. PubMed identifiers, 
> Digital Object Identifiers, Astrophysics Datasystem Bibcodes, 
> and others) which would be registered under the OpenURL Framework.
> 
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> 
> Public feedback led to the decision to fundamentally revise 
> the naming architecture, and to base all resource 
> identification requirements within the OpenURL Framework on 
> URIs alone.  Because it was deemed unreaslistic to expect 
> that all namespaces required in the OpenURL Framework would 
> be registered within the URI allocation by the respective 
> namespace authorities, the "info" URI effort was launched.  
> This work is being conducted under the auspices of NISO, and 
> with active involvement and consultation from the IETF and 
> the W3C.  It is hoped that the lightweight, and 
> community-based, registration mechanism that will underlie 
> the "info" URI scheme will rapidly lead to the availability 
> of "info" URIs to identify a wide variety of information 
> assets.  More detailed information of the effort is available at [6].
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> c. References
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> [1] "Dewey Decimal Classification". Retrieved September 20,  
> 2003 from <http://www.oclc.org/dewey/>.
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> [2] "Library of Congress Control Number". Retrieved August 1, 
> 2003 from <http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/lccn_structure.html>.
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> [3] "NASA Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Code". 
> Retrieved August 1, 2003 from 
> <http://adsdoc.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/data.html>
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> [4] Lagoze, C., H. Van de Sompel, M. Nelson and S. Warner. 
> "Specification and XML Schema for the OAI Identifier Format", 
> June 2002. Retrieved September 4, 2003 from 
> <http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-oai-identifier.htm>.
> 
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> [5] Draft Standard for Trial Use ANSI/NISO Z39.88, "The 
> OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services".  Retrieved 
> September 20, 2003 from 
> <http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/Public_Comments.htm>
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> [6]<http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/PubComDocs/Announce/200
> 30626-Announce-Naming2.htm>
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