Leslie Carr wrote:
> The Hub sounds to me like a private Semantic Web - a bounded service
> where we name entities and trade information about named entities. Every
> new proposal such as this to "uniquely identify entities" just seems to
> set up yet another identity in competition with all the other unique
> identities that we have.
I couldn't agree more, Les. It's similar to that often repeated adage
that standards must be good, because there are so many of them!
Surely the appropriate way to go forward is for
> repositories to start by locally choosing a scheme for identifying
> individuals (I suggest coining a URI that is grounded in some aspect of
> the institution's processes). If we can export consistently referenced
> individuals, then global services can worry about "equivalence
> mechanisms" to collect together all the various forms of reference that .
>
Absolutely, and in the field of Research, is this where a format such as
CERIF-XML would help ?
Also in a wider context, from the principles of good data management ..
we should be aiming to reuse data we already have to identify entities,
rather than adding another item in the mix.
Anna
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