- From: Hilmar Lapp <hlapp@duke.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:07:08 -0400
- To: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Eric Jain wrote: > If I have an LSID like urn:lsid:uniprot.org:uniprot:P12345 and > uniprot.org disappears (assuming there was even a resolver running > there in the first place), how is that URI going to be more useful > than a simple HTTP URL In the LSID resolver spec resolution doesn't depend on the authority domain name. This is (at least was) a concept similar as for DOIs. If the original journal or publisher goes away, the DOI can be rerouted through the central registry to a different journal, or publisher that subsumed the original one, or to a digital archive. -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at duke dot edu : ===========================================================
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