Am forwarding this message yesterday which may be of interest to some on this list. The "info" URI scheme is now finally really real (RFC 4452):
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4452.txt
Background: The "info" URI scheme is a means of grandfathering legacy namespaces onto the Web in their own right (e.g. PubMed identifiers, ADS bibcodes, etc., etc.). Many Web applications expect identifiers to be packaged as URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and "info" fulfils that need. Co-authored by Herbert Van de Sompel (LANL - OAI, OpenURL), Tony Hammond (NPG), Stu Weibel (OCLC - Dublin Core), and Eamonn Neylon (CSW), this is nothing short of a triumph over adversity and persperity (or much perspiration). And before you ask, no - it doesn't go "click" in the night. It just represents a (legacy) identifier within a Web context, e.g. an RDF document, an XLink construct, an OpenURL link, etc.
Cheers,
Tony
ps/
Apologies to Toots and the Maytals for the title riff.
------ Forwarded Message
> From: Herbert Van de Sompel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:24:52 -0600
> To: Tony Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lorcan Dempsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Eamonn Neylon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Stu Weibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pat Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Fwd: ID Tracker State Update Notice: draft-vandesompel-info-uri]
>
> hi all,
>
> see below: info URI is now officially RFC 4452,
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4452.txt?number=4452
>
> greetings
>
> herbert
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ID Tracker State Update Notice: draft-vandesompel-info-uri
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:06:14 -0400
> From: The IESG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 'State Changes to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue by Amy Vezza'
> ID Tracker URL:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=10863&
> rfc_flag=0
>
>
>
> --
> Herbert Van de Sompel
> Digital Library Research & Prototyping
> Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
> http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/
> tel. +1 505 667 1267
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