I've got nothing against putting http uris in OpenURLs myself. I don't understand the objection to that, really. Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the point of all this to be able to put > the URI in an OpenURL? And info was invented (in part) to avoid putting > http URIs in OpenURLs (because they are complicated enough already, why > clutter them further). So I don't see that pursuing an http solution to > this is very useful. --Ray > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Houghton,Andrew" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:24 PM > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris? > > > >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >>> Jonathan Rochkind >>> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:18 PM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris? >>> >>> I am not interested in maintaining a sudoc.info registration, and >>> neither is my institution, who I wouldn't trust to maintain it (even to >>> the extent of not letting the DNS registration expire) after I left. >>> >> BTW, you could always use http://purl.org/ and later if you wanted >> to have it resolve to something just change the PURL. >>