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
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>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.
>
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