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 
<> wrote:

> Bernard,
>
> Actually responding to Peter's post below:
>
> Bernard Vatant wrote:
>> Peter
>>
> <snip>
>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Peter Brown [mailto:]
>> 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
>>
>>
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> 
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