- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:09:04 -0500
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
At 1:18 PM -0500 3/22/06, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > I'd like to assign URNs to some of my personal documents, for easy cross >> referencing and for learning about the URN system. >> >> Some questions: >> >> * Is there are Namespace Identifier to be used for that purpose (e.g. >> "personal_document")? >> >> * How do I make sure that the Namespace Specific Strings are unique? By >> choosing random personalized strings similar to Message IDs in emails? >> >> * What database should I use to map URNs to actual document locations on >> my hard disk? >> >> * Is there some recommended way to tag a text document with a URN? (I >> guess not) >> >> Note that, of course, I could just go ahead, add tags to my documents >> whose structure I made up, use a simple text based database to map >> these tags to documents, and write a little script that tells me the >> location of a file given a tag. However, I'd like to know how to do it >> the "URN way". See if you can catch up with David F. Brailsford or at least his TUG paper from 2002: http://uk.tug.org/Activities/AGM/2002/Announcement.html This, of course, will inevitably lead you to DOI as well. http://www.doi.org/ Al > >I suggest: > > 1. Imagine that some day you'll want these documents to be > available on the web. What address would be good for > them if they were? Maybe something like > http://felix-klee.org/2006/03/doc42 ? > > Invest in the domain name. > > Then use that kind of URL as the tag, knowing that it's likely > to be still useful long after your current hard-drive is gone, > and you'll have moved some of the documents to your web server. > > 2. If you can't bring yourself to do that, use tag URIs. See > taguri.org. > >Just my not-so-humble opinion. :-) > > -- Sandro
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