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
