- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:55:26 -0400
- To: Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>
- Cc: David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>, public-lod@w3.org
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:27 -0400, Patrick Durusau wrote: [ . . . ] > The use of CAS identifiers supports searching across vast domains of > *existing* literature. Not all, but most of it for the last 60 or so > years. > > That is non-trivial and should not be lightly discarded. > > BTW, your objection is that "non-licensed systems" cannot use CAS > identifiers? Are these commercial systems that are charging their > customers? Why would you think such systems should be able to take > information created by others? Using the information associated with an identifier is one thing; using the identifier itself is another. I'm sure the CAS numbers have added non-trivial value that should not be ignored. But their business model needs to change. It is ludicrous in this web era to prohibit the use of the identifiers themselves. If there is one principle we have learned from the web, it is enormous value and importance of freely usable universal identifiers. URIs rule! http://urisrule.org/ :) -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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