On 25 Nov 2008, at 17:26, Ed Summers wrote:
> My personal opinion is that RDA should follow in the footsteps of RDF
> and allow any sort of URI to be used to identify a bibliographic
> resource. One could well imagine RDA users wating to use ISBN URNs,
> natural keys expressed as URLs, info-uris, DOIs and Handles expressed
> as URIs, etc. It seems premature to restrict the types of identifiers
> that oould be used other than requiring them to be URIs.
I agree with this, although a preference for http URIs (that actually
respond with useful data) makes the data more widely useful.
Rob Styles
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