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Re: URIs for organizations

From: Ryan Shaw <ryanshaw@ischool.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:57:20 -0800
Message-ID: <af556a820811200857r737514d5jc0988258e8178825@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Paul Tyson" <phtyson@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Semantic web list" <semantic-web@w3.org> 

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Paul Tyson <phtyson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Can anyone point to prior art or emerging standards for identifying
> organizations with URIs?

WorldCat Identities includes organizations, e.g:

USMC: http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n78-95328
Google: http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-no00-95539
PETA: http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n85-378392

They are linked to LOC authority files:
http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n78-95328.html
Received on Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:58:01 GMT

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