From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199305241756.AA29268@oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: where URCs fit
To: uri@bunyip.com
Date: Mon, 24 May 93 13:56:33 EDT
percival@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu said this:
> I think that the real problem we're facing with the "add this option to the
> URL" movement that seems to be growing is that I haven't heard anyone
> articulate how URCitation information is going to be rolled into the
> URN/URL architecture. This "I want more stuff" is really a URC problem.
> Here's my two cents worth .
I know this maybe premature, but IMHO it would work something like this:
URC:format_name::"field"::"field"::"field":: ...ad_nauseum":::
With my preferred format being taken from the IAFA templates (which I don't
have handy so I can't quote from it.) This would give you something like this:
URC:IAFA::"Author: Michael Mealling"::"Format: Postscript"::"Title: URCs":::
Now, a full URI would be one or more UR*. There is some confusion here that
needs to be clarrified. Some consider a URI to be a citation since it
contains the name plus metainformation plus location info. For this example
I'm using URI to mean everything while a URC is just the metainformation.
Thus a URI would look like this:
URN:IANA:636::rco.gatech.edu:doc#5:::
URL:gopher://gopher.gatech.edu:70/News/rcoE/Title/
URC:IAFA::"Title: Ozone Emmision Survey"::"Author: Some_Guy"::"Format: PostScript"::"blabla:blabla":::
Yes, that whole thing would be a URI. It's a very small one because it just
has one of each. You could have as many of each as you wanted.
Comments? Flames?
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