Chimezie,
The employee wants to build an ontology and doesn't have control over
web space. She considers using the tag scheme instead of an HTTP scheme
(with a bogus domain name such as
http://example.com/clinical-medicine/surgical-procedures#minimally-invasive-procedure) because the latter scenario would result in the use of the HTTP scheme which incorrectly suggests (to "follow-you-nose Semantic Web agents" - there is growing number of such software) that they attempt to unnecessarily dereference the terms for more 'useful' information.
But this is a "pyschological" issue, not a "technical one". If the
employee didn't invoke LSID library to request the allocation of the
LSID URIs space, she is not using LSID. Is there any difference between
a bogus LSID URI and a bogus HTTP URI? If she doesn't intend to deploy
her ontology on the web, why is she bothered by the "follow-you-nose
Semantic Web agents"? I don't know what "follow-you-nose Semantic Web
agents" that you have in mind, but do they treat a HTTP 404 resource any
differently follow a "can-not-follow-resource"?
Xiaoshu
