On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Diane I. Hillmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The identifiers for the FRBR entities are coming--we're just waiting for an
> agreement within IFLA on the domain name, and they'll be added to the NSDL
> Registry--with luck by the end of the year.
I think Rob was talking about identifiers for actual *instances* of
FRBR Entities, not about identifiers for classes and whatnot in the
FRBR vocabulary.
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.
//Ed
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