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Thom, This is good news. Whenever I think about this, I picture it looking something like a DOI: like dbID:vendorID or something, but I don't know. Do you have any details? Thanks, -Ross. Hickey,Thom wrote: >There's been some talk around here at OCLC about doing something about >this, especially to identify database-collections, which seem to be >entities people worry about too. > >--Th > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >Ross Singer >Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:45 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [CODE4LIB] Authority Control for Databases > >Is anybody aware of any type of standard identifier for databases? Or >any movement to create one? > >Matching on name seems very backwards. > >If there's not a group trying to create said authority, how could >something like that be started? Would anybody else see value in this? > >Thanks, >-Ross. > > >