- From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:00:44 GMT
- To: bigrat18@hotmail.com
- CC: rden@loc.gov, www-zig@w3.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:40:42 +0100 > From: "Jonathan Rowell" <bigrat18@hotmail.com> > > Ray wrote [...] > > "if you try to go to: http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/dcschema/v1.0/ > you'll get "Not Found" because it's not intended as an actionable > uri but as an identifier, the same way that an oid is an > identifier. We *can* guarantee persistence of this uri, as well as > un-ambiguity. If a new version is developed, there will be a new > uri, maybe http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/dcschema/v1.1/, but the old > uri (http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/dcschema/v1.0/) will continue to > identify version 1.0." > > Now for me that's a namespace. No, it's a schema -- just one that's identified by a unique _name_ rather than pointed to be an address. A namespace is just a place to put names -- like a GRS-1 tag set. A schema is a structure: it's conceptually the same kind of thing whether a GRS-1 schema or an XML Schema. _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "If you want to double your success rate, you have to quadruple your failure rate" -- Thomas Watson, IBM Founder. -- Listen to my wife's new CD of kids' music, _Child's Play_, at http://www.pipedreaming.org.uk/childsplay/
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