Titia van der Werf wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Frank A. Roos wrote:
> >
> > Forgive me, if this message might be redundant, but I haven't been able
> > to follow the discussions on Meta2 very closely in the past period in
> > general , and those on identifiers in particular.
> >
> > So maybe this is not relevant at all.
>
> Hi,
>
> Frank's message triggers me to put the following question to the meta2
> list, one which popped up yesterday when I read information about the URN
> generator being built in the Nordic countries. It concerns "how to put
> URNs into documents".
>
> Using meta-tags:
> ---------------
> When an HTML document receives a URN (DOI-like or other) and it can be
> resolved into a URL (via a registered resolution service known to your
> browser?) it does not make very much sense to paste the URN in the meta
> tag of the document itself (that is like making a self-reference).
>
> Hyperlinking mechanism:
> -----------------------
> It seems to me the Internet community would be looking for a solution
> similar to the URL one, where you can either enter a URL at the browser
> window level or you click on a hyperlinked URL (<A href="">) in a given
> document and the browser fetches the requested document.
> Does anyone know if/how URNs are/will be hyperlinked and resolved using
> HTML encoding and HTTP protocol?
>
Although the information I got on DOIs is mentioning automatic resolving, I
quote
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For example, a DOI can be assigned to articles or references and added to an
Internet page anywhere in the world as a button; clicking the button will
take the user there. So what's different from a URL? The fact that even if
the URL then changes, the DOI still works!
Unquote
Seems familiar to the persisten URL concept.
--
Frank A. Roos
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