if you work in a world where everything has a GUID, that might be fine.
I don't envision that being the case in the world at large anytime in
the foreseeable future.
It could be useful to use SCHEME qualified identifiers, but then only
systems that used the identifiers could make use of the data, or am I
missing something?
stu
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wason [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 12:19 PM
To: Dublin Core
Subject: Creator
Pardon me for horning in here. I am leading the metadata effort
for the
MS project of Educom (http://www.imsproject.org, technical
documents at
http://www.imsproject.org/technical).
One of the things we are considering is the use of OIDs (Object
IDs) or
GUIDs (Globally Unique IDs) on all objects. A person's profile
would
thus have an OID or GUID. The Creator field could thus have the
GUID(s)
as the value, with no name at all. Will the use of only GUIDs
for
object and entity references work in the Dublin Core schema?
--Tom
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