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:
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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:
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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?
gr., Titia
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Titia van der Werf
Library research
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
National Library of the Netherlands
The Hague
The NETHERLANDS
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tel : +31 70-3140467
http://www.konbib.nl/persons/titia/
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