Re: Datatypes with no (cool) URI

Trying to prune this a bit...

>> Or, at least, why can't ISO manage a DOI-equivalent space that would
>> rein-in bogusly-long URIs, make them more manageable, and perhaps more
>> functional e.g. CrossRef's Linked Data-savvy DOI proxy
>> <http://bit.ly/HcStYl>
>
> Yep, that would do the job certainly. Hmmm... unless Crossref could mint
> URIs out of, say, ISO/IEC 5218:2004 ??

ISO could do something like, http://www.iso.org/iso/ie/5218_2004 (or whatever)

They could then back-end that as appropriate, minimally re-directing
to the bogusly-long-URL version, but better source metadata via conneg
(which is what CrosRef is now doing).

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Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:21:32 UTC