I read through a first draft in November (discussed
with a few people at the UK XML Topic Maps conference), but frankly there was
not much interest, as the proposal does not seem to offer anything more than,
say, Handle-based systems: Further it does not seem to qualify as a specific
scheme given that it fails the test of being able to "deliver" (in a service
sense not a network or transmission one) anything that the http scheme does not
already manage.
BTW, this was the same issue that put the proposed
DOI: scheme in the dock
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Durusau
To: tm-pubsubj
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:56 AM
Subject: [tm-pubsubj] [Fwd: NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme
Published]
Greetings!
I don't normally forward stuff from other lists
but thought this should
be the rare exception. I have not had time to do
more than scan the post
itself but suspect members of our group will find it
of interest.
Hope everyone is having a great
day!
Patrick
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Subject: NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme Published
Date:
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:12:21 -0500
From: "Cynthia Hodgson" <>
To: <> (NISO-L
List)
NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme is Information Gateway to
the
Web
Publishing and Library Communities Join Forces to
Facilitate and
Expedite Representation of Standard
Identifiers such as Library of Congress
Control Numbers on
the Web
Working under the auspices of the National
Information
Standards Organization (NISO), a joint task force of
the
publishing and library communities has developed and
published a
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme aimed
at the identification of
information assets. Information
assets should be interpreted rather
broadly to include,
for example, documents and terms from
classification
schemes. The INFO URI scheme is a consistent and
reliable
way to represent and reference such standard identifiers
as Dewey
Decimal Classifications on the Web so that these
identifiers can be "read"
and understood by Web
applications. Led by four NISO members and
associates-Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Online Computer Library
Center
(OCLC), Elsevier, and Manifest Solutions-the initiative
builds on
earlier consultations with representatives from
the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) and the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). An Internet-Draft for
the
INFO URI scheme was first published Sept. 25th, 2003 and a
revision
published Dec. 5th, 2003 (see
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandesompel-info-uri-01.txt>).*
Herbert
Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research &
Prototyping at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory's
Research Library, stated, "A good example of the
problem
that the INFO URI scheme solves involves PubMed
identifiers:
unique numbers assigned to records in the
PubMed database maintained by the
National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National
Library
of Medicine. PubMed identifiers originated prior to the
Web,
so they are not URIs. As such they do not exist
naturally in the Web
infrastructure because the Web only
recognizes URIs as a means to identify
information
resources. So Web applications cannot use
PubMed
identifiers, and hence cannot reference PubMed records
that are
identified by them. The solution is to turn
PubMed identifiers into
URIs. The INFO Registry enables
the registration of public namespaces
of standard
identifiers; NCBI registered its PubMed identifier
namespace
under the INFO Registry-their namespace is
pmid-so we can now talk about the
record with the PubMed
identifier '12376099' in URI terms
as
<info:pmid/12376099>."
"The goal of INFO is to act as a
bridging mechanism to the
Web by providing a lightweight means for
registering
public namespaces used for the identification of
information
assets," said Tony Hammond, Advanced
Technology Group at Elsevier, a
world-leading publisher of
scientific, technical and medical information
products and
services. "We see INFO as an enabling technology for
the
library, publishing and media communities-a way to
facilitate and
speed the growth of the Web as a truly
global information place beyond a
basic document
repository. The Library of Congress, the National
Library
of Medicine, and NASA are among those organizations that
have
already registered public namespaces with the INFO
Registry."
"There
are different ways to represent these identifiers
on the Web," explained Pat
Harris, NISO's Executive
Director, "but the INFO URI scheme really
simplifies
matters. As a Web user, you aren't likely to see the
scheme in
action on your screen-for example,
<info:lccn/2002022641>, because it's
an under-the-hood way
of communicating the identity of an information asset
to a
Web application."
The INFO Registry is now available online
at
<http://info-uri.info/> for
receiving new registrations.
This Registry contains all the information
needed by Web
applications to make use of INFO namespaces. Each
Registry
entry defines the namespace, the syntax, and normalization
rules
for the representing INFO identifiers as URIs, and
gives full contact
information for the namespace authority
for that entry. Moreover, the INFO
Registry is readable by
both humans and machines alike.
For more
information about the INFO URI scheme, see the
FAQ at
< http://info-uri.info/registry/docs/misc/faq.html
>.
===========================================
Cynthia
Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda
Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814-5248
T. 301-654-2512, F.
301-654-1721
www.niso.org
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