-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 With respect to the upcoming W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group f2f discussion of LSIDs, I wonder if you might think seriously about adopting an approach similar to that used by the ARK (Archival Resource Key) naming scheme [1].
_Very_ roughly, this would involve Semantic Web uses of LSIDs to use an http-scheme version of LSIDs, along the following lines: URN:LSID:rcsb.org:PDB:1D4X:22 - --> http://lsids.org/lsid:rcsb.org:PDB:1D4X:22 or, alternatively, as per my recent suggestion to Sean http://rcsb.org.lsids.org/lsid:PDB:1D4X:22 I strongly recommend studying the ARK approach in any case, as it seems to me that although starting from a different subject area, its requirements are very close to your own. ht [1] http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/arkcdl.pdf - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEx6Q7kjnJixAXWBoRAtmiAJ91L1rgwcAJt9Bfj8L+aFIvxCNeCwCcDaaP QLYnM8B+jQK7ozDtuCF/Hro= =ZawN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----