2 thoughts on “prism:doi

  1. Jakob

    What’s wrong with info:doi? There is a registered namespace, so just use it! Elsewise you only create more confusion and incompatibilities. However if you import data, you should always look for URLs like http://dx.doi.org/10.1030/03054 and convert them to the right URI form info:doi/10.1030/03054. You need to clean data anyway.

  2. Tony Hammond

    Hi Jakob:
    Note that the “info” URI scheme was developed as a bootstrap mechanism to get legacy namespaces represented on the Web. It was not intended to limit individual namespaces in their own registrations. Indeed the RFC is very specific about this:
    “The registration of a public namespace in the “info” Registry SHALL
    NOT preclude further development of services associated with that
    namespace that MAY qualify the namespace for additional publication
    elsewhere within the URI allocation.”
    There are many issues involved in registering a toplevel URI scheme – branding being just one of them.
    Cheers,
    Tony

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