If it's a URI that is indeed an identifier that "unambiguously
identifies the referent", as the standard says... I don't see how
that's inappropriate in rft_id. Isn't that what it's for?
I mentioned before that I put things like
http://catalog.library.jhu.edu/bib/1234 in my rft_ids. Putting
http://somewhere.edu/our-purl-server/1234 in rft_id seems very analogous
to me. Both seem appropriate.
I'm not sure what makes a URI "locally meaningful" or not. What makes
http://www.worldcat.org/bibID or http://books.google.com/book?id=foo
"globally meaningful" but http://catalog.library.jhu.edu/bib/1234 or
http://somewhere.edu/our-purl-server/1234 "locally meaningful"? If it's
a URI that is reasonably persistent and unambiguously identifies the
referent, then it's an identifier and is appropriate for rft_id, says me.
Jonathan
Eric Hellman wrote:
I think using locally meaningful ids in rft_id is a misuse and a
mistake. locally meaningful data should goi in rft_dat, accompanied by
rfr_id
just sayin'
On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
I do like Ross's solution, if you really wanna use OpenURL. I'm much
more comfortable with the idea of including a URI based on your own
local service in rft_id, then including any old public URL in rft_id.
Then at least your link resolver can say "if what's in rft_id begins
with (eg) http://telstar.open.ac.uk/, THEN I know this is one of
these purl type things, and I know that sending the user to it will
result in a redirect to an end-user-appropriate access URL."
Cause that's my concern with putting random URLs in rft_id, that
there's no way to know if they are intended as end-user-appropriate
access URLs or not, and in putting things in rft_id that aren't
really good "identifiers" for the referent at all. But using your
own local service ID, now you really DO have something that's
appropriately considered a "persistent identifier" for the referent,
AND you have a straightforward way to tell when the rft_id of this
context is intended as an access URL.
Jonathan
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