Hi!
Living without IDs is IMHO only not worse than now.
DOI (Handle) is beyond the scope for the project. These are persistent
identifier schemes that work by a central DB that knows how to resolve the ID
to the unique resource in question. This stuff is all web-based and target is
"any object in the world". You could even register a DOI for a single game of
chess, indeed. All you do is: you give the DOI to the resolver, this resolver
looks up this handle in the internal database and returns a proper URL for the
resource. A very similar system is URN and if you look up the history actually
Mr. Lee proposed to use URN for the web and not this silly URL stuff. The
latter was prefered anyway and you all know the 404-result.
Anyway: to build a DOI-like system (call it COI) for scid would mean to set up
a database (no I refer to a _real_ database, no scid database). If you create a
new scid database that should use COI it registers first with the central
database, hence the COI knows the scid-db. Then, for every game you add you'd
have to pass the game number plus the base name to the COI. The same happens
every time a game is moved (e.g. corrected, deleted or whatever) you send this
info again to the COI which corrects internal data accordingly.
You see, to set up such a system you can start up programming backend (or pay
for handle/doi.)
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Betreff: Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid
Gesendet: Fr, 27. Jun 2008
Von: Benoit St-Pierre
Indeed.
Calming down now, I realize that we can live without Ids. I thought that was a
simple task. That is a real pity, from a reference point of view.
Still, I wonder how the DOI can survive Pascal's demonstration. Looking a bit,
they are using CRNI handle system. I don't know the beast, but I wonder if we
use the ideas.
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