On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:09 PM, David Osolkowski wrote:
I think the question might have been misread. I understood the
question to
be, "is there or should there be a microformat for indicating that
something
IS an identifier", as opposed to "is there or should there be a
microformat
FOR identifiers". E.g. given the string "urn:isbn:<whatever>",
indicating
that that string represents an identifier.
I don't believe the question was misread. Tantek's point was that
there's no need for a microformat, we already have it covered with URIs.
I would suggest that the point of the identifier is that it
represents some
resource, and merely marking up a string as being an identifier
doesn't
accomplish much without being able to dereference it and obtain the
resource
it identifies.
So, you're saying URIs are only useful when they're URIs?
Saying "urn:isbn:<whatever>" is an identifier doesn't do
much good; the point is that given that identifier, I can tell that
it's
talking about a book and I can go obtain information about that
book. In
which case, a href="" comes to mind. I think there's room for some
debate
here.
I'm not sure what use case you're going at here.
- David
On 11/23/05, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello C. Hudley, welcome to the list!
On 11/23/05 9:54 AM, "C. Hudley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has any work been done on a format for identifiers? By
"identifier" I
mean "some kind of arbitrary string that identifies the object at
hand
in some system". Examples of the kinds of identifiers that might be
in scope would be ISBNs for books, PMIDs for pubmed, node ids for
weblog entries, DOIs for journal articles, flickr ids for flickr
images, etc.
BTW, see http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes and http://
www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces, which have schemes and
namesspaced for most of the things you list above.
-ryan
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