Re: Identifiers for digital content

Hi Graham,

I'll have a dig into your project; I think you're right about the similarities.

> BTW, DOIs might be an option for the identifiers, as they can be published as http://dx.doi.org/... for dereferencability.  There's a growing dereferencing structure not unlike PURL, but somewhat more formalized if people feel that's what is required.

Absolutely — my feeling is if your rules around identifiers & retrieving metadata boil down "use linked data", then DOIs (and things derived from DOIS, such as EIDR) can — for those who wish to use them — work as a part of that, because you can express a DOI as an HTTP URI and publish data on the place you end up at when you resolve it.

M.

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