Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

[Jonathan Rochkind]

Thanks Ray.

Oh boy, I don't know enough about SuDoc to describe the syntax rules 
fully. I can spend some more time with the SuDoc documentation (written 
for a pre-computer era) and try to figure it out, or do the best I can.  
I mean, the info registration can clearly point to the existing SuDoc 
documentation and say "one of these" -- but actually describing the 
syntax formally may or may not be possible/easy/possible-for-me-personally.

I can't even tell if normalization would be required or not. I don't 
think so.  I think SuDocs don't suffer from that problem LCCNs did to 
require normalization, I think they already have consistent form,  but 
I'm not certain.

I'll see what I can do with it. 

But Ray, you work for 'the government'.   Do you have a relationship 
with a counter-part at GPO that might be interested in getting involved 
with this?

Jonathan

Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
It's a fairly straightforward process,  See:
http://info-uri.info/registry/register.html

You should look at a few examples first, go to 
http://info-uri.info/registry/  and click on a few of those listed in the 
left column.

I think registering one for SuDocs would be fairly easy.

The info folks are most concerned that the syntax rules are well-described. 
I had registered a few of these before they started cracking the whip on 
that (and rightly so), and when I registered info:lc it became more 
difficult; you might want to look at that for an example:
http://info-uri.info/registry/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=reg&identifier=info:lc/

Also, normalization - I suggested looking at info:lccn normalization rules:
http://info-uri.info/registry/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=reg&identifier=info:lccn/

--Ray


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochk...@jhu.edu>
To: <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:12 PM
Subject: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?


  
Does anyone know the process for registering a sub-scheme for info: uris?

I'd like to have one for SuDoc classification numbers, info:sudoc/.

I'm not sure if I can register that on my own, without working with the US 
Government Printing Office, who actually maintains sudocs.  But if I have 
to get GPO to do it, I'll probably give up quicker (unless it turns out 
easier than I thought to find the right person at GPO and get them to sign 
on -- I doubt it!). Or if the registration process is really long and 
onerous.

But if it's easy enough to just fill out a form and get info:sudoc 
registered, I'd rather it be legal than use things that look like an info 
uri but really aren't a legally registered sub-scheme.

Anyone know?

Jonathan