Hello Howard,
Like Lorna says, we've been talking about this for years and there's no
definitive solution yet :-)
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> On 21 Dec 2005, at 11:10, Howard Noble wrote:
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> Our situation is that we are building repository services with the
> JISC repositories programme and want to give resources a unique Id
> and in a way that the network location of the resource can be
> 'resolved' or derived logically from the metadata i.e. in similar
> way Resolvers use ISBN/ ISSN to get to books and journal articles.
> Something compliant with OAI is paramount.
>
> As we are to start the build soon we'd like to know what current
> thinking is.
>
I'm not sure about his current thinking, but Andy Powell and some
colleagues from OCLC came up with a proposal for purl-based object
identifiers, POIs, which leverages the OAI identifiers of the metadata
record. POIs have been used (sort-of, probably more accurate to say that
they have been assigned) during the RDN/LTSN interoperability project.
There's a POI<->URL lookup tool for RDN resources.
Phil.
POI: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/poi/
POI lookup: http://www.rdn.ac.uk/poi/
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