- From: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:28:36 -0700 (PDT)
- To: public-lod@w3.org, Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>
--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote: "The fact remains that even if we switched (miraculously) today to all new URI identifiers, we will be accessing literature using prior identifiers for a very long time. I suspect hundreds of years." Somewhere around 1890, I think, the amount of published scientific literature exceeded the ability of a person to read it all in a lifetime. Selectivity has been the rule for over 100 years. So the answer is not "hundreds of years" it's forever. --Gannon
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