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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Notification option on licences
  • Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:28:18 -0500

On Friday 25 November 2005 12:16 pm, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:32:51PM -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > - There's already a well designed, amazingly flexible, decentralized
> > identifier system widely deployed that CC metadata and pretty much
> > everything else on the web builds upon -- URIs. You can use a dc:source
> > property to identify a source work's URI.
>
> Some other things to note:
>
> * The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (on which CC Metadata is based)
> has an element "identifier" that can be used to identify works. It's
> entirely reasonable to use more than one identifier here, if you
> wish.
>
> * You can get a so-called "Permanent URL" or "PURL" domain from
> http://purl.org/ . These can be very useful for maintaining a
> namespace of works separate from any given server.
>
> * Common Content (http://commoncontent.org/) assigns each registered
> work a number and an URL, so you could use that URL as your
> identifier if needed.
>
> * There are also ITU OIDs, which are pretty nice. There's an URN
> namespace for them, see here:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3061.txt
>
> It might be reasonable for a works registry like Common Content to
> get an OID and then dole out OIDs to authors to use as they wish.
>
> * GUIDs (AKA UUIDs) make very nice unique IDs. They can be generated
> on practically any computer, and are almost guaranteed to be unique.
> Unfortunately, they're not resolvable, like URLs are.

Thanks ofr the education, I need to read and digest these after the month is
over.

For the application I had in mind, I don't think resolvability is necessary.

>
> ~Evan

all the best,

drew

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