- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:45:18 +0200
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Jonathan Rees wrote: > This isn't academic. The Library of Congress trashes the http: scheme > [1] in the same way that the LSID spec does - they say it's no good > because URIs are locators (first answer) instead of "identifiers" > (references; second answer). The justification for using http: for > literature reference, even in the best of circumstances, has got to be > better than "trust me" or "it usually works" or "you're being anal". > > [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/uri/news.html Note that they "trash" both the URL and the URN scheme for -- unlike the "info" scheme -- implying resolvability. In practice, people will know that you can resolve an "unresolvable" URI such as info:arxiv/hep-th/9901001 to http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901001, so the main difference I guess is that with "info" URIs the resolution is non-standard and namespace-specific...
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