DCMI Identifiers Community Session Minutes, DC-2008, Berlin, 24 September 2008
Meeting Summary
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Twenty people attended
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Presentations:
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W3C's Linked Data Approach
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Persistent Identifier Principles and Practice
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Brief updates on identifier-related work
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Decision to recommend the Identifiers Community continues.
Presentations
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Slides from both presentations PDF, 1.5 Mb.
W3C's Linked Data Approach
Presented by Mikael Nilsson, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.
Described the approach's four rules for URI's:
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Use URIs as names
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Make the URIs actionable
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Make the return values useful
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Link to additional information
More details at http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html and http://esw.w3.org/topic/LinkedData
Questions/comments from the participants:
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Who will assign URIs?
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What about ISTC?
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What about URIs for people?
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Where do you see URNs fitting in? Are they useful?
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Amazon and Wikipedia contain stable links, which is useful and may explain why they tend to float to the top of search results.
Identifier Principles and Practice
Presented by John Kunze, California Digital Library.
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URLs are not the problem
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Tightly bound metadata for object description and archival policy is the best you can do
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Plug for ARK identifiers, which do just that, using DCMI Kernel metadata, and without the cost and risk of DOIs and Handles
Brief updates from participants
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Juha Hakala, National Library of Finland: DOI is progressing in ISO
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Bernhard, German National Library: TEL (The European Library) is to build network of resolvers
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Malte Dreyer, Max Planck Digital Library: Handles to be used at Max Planck Institutes.
Future of the Identifiers Community
Almost unanimous show of hands to recommend to continue the community:
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Useful for communication
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Useful to identify important topics