it's worth noting that the "info" work emerged from NISO's OpenURL development. OpenURL is a standard for packaging metadata into a URL. Hundreds of libraries around the world have implemented resolution systems ("link resolvers") based on this OpenURL standard.
The info URI will just be a way to reference things so that these link resolution facilities can understand.
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it's worth noting that the "info" work emerged from NISO's OpenURL development. OpenURL is a standard for packaging metadata into a URL. Hundreds of libraries around the world have implemented resolution systems ("link resolvers") based on this OpenURL standard.
The info URI will just be a way to reference things so that these link resolution facilities can understand.
doi comes with a resolution system, based on cnri's handle system. You pay to get a prefix.
The info scheme will probably include doi as a namespace info:doi/ although the doi people want to get "doi:" in as a top-level uri scheme.
every item assigned a doi has to go into the doi registry; with info, only the namespaces will get registered