Re: Institutional Identifier (I2) comments (was: RE: Institutional Identifier Re: [Digipres] NISO Seeking Feedback on ...)

hi all,

I am hearing on the grapevine that it would be beneficial to add a few  
words about "why" I2 should care about a HTTP, Linked Data approach.  
There seems to be a lack of understanding of the possible value.

Cheers

Herbert

On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Emmanuelle Bermes wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:52 AM, William Waites
> <william.waites@okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 10-07-30 10:38, Jodi Schneider wrote:
>>> "The URI should be included in the final version of the metadata"
>>>
>>> Is it useful to make some reasons clear? i.e. to explain why it is  
>>> "a
>>> valuable addition to the standard"? Or is that already clear to the
>>> NISO I2 working group?
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> "Dereferencing the URI with an HTTP request is the simplest and most
>> straightforward way to obtain a copy of the metadata"
>
> +1
>
>>
>> On URI vs. URL, does it make sense at all to suggest the  
>> registration of
>> a urn namespace with IANA? Or do non-dereferenceable URIs like that  
>> just
>> muddy the waters?
>
> In a linked data perspective, I guess we should advocate strongly in
> favor of a dereferenceable URI approach.
>
> Emmanuelle
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -w
>>
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>
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==
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/
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