On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:17 +0100, Mike Taylor wrote: > Ed Summers writes: > > Assuming a world where you cannot de-reference this DOI what is it > > good for? > > It wouldn't be good for much if you couldn't dereference it at all. > The point is that (I argue) the identifier shouldn't tie itself to a > particular dereferencing mechanism (such as dx.doi.org, or amazon.com) > but should be dereferenced by software that knows what's the most > appropriate dereferencing mechanism _for you_ in your situation, with > your subscriptions, at particular distances from specific libraries, > etc.
Heh, that sounds like a good idea. Maybe we could call it an OpenURL? And that distinction about having a dereferencing mechanism sounds okay, but let's call it a ... service. Then we could define an architecture for that sort of thing rather than a Resource oriented one. We could call it a Service Oriented Architecture. Oh, wait... Rob
