I would counter that Dublin Core has been pretty successful with:
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
and
http://purl.org/dc/terms/
More so than MODS and SRU combined, I would say. What does that say
to you (other than LC's bad SEO strategy)?
-Ross.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A concrete example.
>
> The MODS schema, version 3.3, has an info identifier, for SRU purposes:
>
> info:srw/schema/1/mods-v3.3
>
> So in an SRU request you can say"
>
> recordSchema=info:srw/schema/1/mods-v3.3
>
> Meaning you want records returned in the mods version 3.3 schema. And
> that's really the purpose of the schema identifier. Both the client and
> server know the schema by this identifier - or the server doesn't know it
> at all and the request fails - but nobody wants to resolve the identifier.
>
> Now in contrast, the schema is at
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd
>
> And it's also at:
> http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd
>
> And also:
> http://www.loc.gov/mods/mods.xsd
>
> And:
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods.xsd
>
> And:
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods.xsd
>
>
>
> So there you have five http "identifiers" for the schema.
>
> Which is the better identifier for this purpose? The single info identifer,
> or a choice http identifers, one for every possible location where the
> schema may reside (which is more than these five). If the answer is that
> it's better to use one of the http identifiers, how do you know that the one
> you pick is the one that the server recognizes it by? Or should the server
> maintain a list of all possible locations?
>
> --Ray
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification (was Re: [CODE4LIB]
> registering info: uris?)
>
>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> But shouldn't we be able to know the difference between an identifier and
>>> a
>>> locator? Isn't that the problem here? That you don't know which it is if
>>> it
>>> starts with http://.
>>
>> But you do if it starts with http://dx.doi.org
>>
>> I still don't see the difference. The same logic that would be
>> required to parse and understand the info: uri scheme could be used to
>> apply towards an http uri scheme.
>>
>> -Ross.
>
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