[Sigia-l] FW: [DIGLIB] NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme Published

[Mark Needleman]

Eric

ISBN ISSN and NBN (National Bibliography Number I think) are registered
as URN namespaces - see

http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces

The registered uri schemes are at

http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes


Mark Needleman
Product Manager - Standards
Sirsi Corporation

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This is interesting. Especially nice to notice the rules for
normalization of lccn identifiers into info: URIs (what to chop,
zero-left-fill, etc).

Does anyone know if ISBN have their own URI name space, outside of info?
Similarly for UPC?

e.

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From: "Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson at niso.org>
Date: 16 January 2004 10:14:59 AM
To: <niso-press at list.niso.org>(NISO Press List)
Subject: [DIGLIB] NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme Published

For Immediate Release

Contact: 
Maryann Karinch (pr at karinch.com)
970-577-8500

NISO-Sponsored INFO URI Scheme is Information Gateway to the Web
Publishing and Library Communities Join Forces to Facilitate and
Expedite Representation of Standard Identifiers such as Library of
Congress Control Numbers on the Web

Bethesda, MD - January 14, 2004 - Working under the auspices of the
National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a joint task force
of the publishing and library communities has developed and published a
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme aimed at the identification of
information assets. Information assets should be interpreted rather
broadly to include, for example, documents and terms from classification
schemes. The INFO URI scheme is a consistent and reliable way to
represent and reference such standard identifiers as Dewey Decimal
Classifications on the Web so that these identifiers can be "read" and
understood by Web applications. Led by four NISO members and associates
-- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Online Computer Library Center
(OCLC), Elsevier, and Manifest Solutions
-- the initiative builds on earlier consultations with representatives
from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). An Internet-Draft for the INFO URI* scheme was first
published Sept. 25th, 2003 and a revision published Dec. 5th, 2003

<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandesompel-info-uri-01.txt>

Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory's Research Library, stated, "A good example
of the problem that the INFO URI scheme solves involves PubMed
identifiers: unique numbers assigned to records in the PubMed database
maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
of the National Library of Medicine. PubMed identifiers originated prior
to the Web, so they are not URIs. As such they do not exist naturally in
the Web infrastructure because the Web only recognizes URIs as a means
to identify information resources. So Web applications cannot use PubMed
identifiers, and hence cannot reference PubMed records that are
identified by them. The solution is to turn PubMed identifiers into
URIs. The INFO Registry enables the registration of public namespaces of
standard identifiers; NCBI registered its PubMed identifier namespace
under the INFO Registry -- their namespace is pmid -- so we can now talk
about the record with the PubMed identifier '12376099' in URI terms as
<info:pmid/12376099>."

"The goal of INFO is to act as a bridging mechanism to the Web by
providing a lightweight means for registering public namespaces used for
the identification of information assets," said Tony Hammond, Advanced
Technology Group at Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific,
technical and medical information products and services. "We see INFO as
an enabling technology for the library, publishing and media communities
-- a way to facilitate and speed the growth of the Web as a truly global
information place beyond a basic document repository. The Library of
Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and NASA are among those
organizations that have already registered public namespaces with the
INFO Registry."

"There are different ways to represent these identifiers on the Web,"
explained Pat Harris, NISO's Executive Director, "but the INFO URI
scheme really simplifies matters. As a Web user, you aren't likely to
see the scheme in action on your screen -- for example,
<info:lccn/2002022641>, -- because it's an under-the- hood way of
communicating the identity of an information asset to a Web
application." The INFO Registry is now available online at
<http://info-uri.info/> for receiving new registrations. This Registry
contains all the information needed by Web applications to make use of
INFO namespaces. Each Registry entry defines the namespace, the syntax,
and normalization rules for the representing INFO identifiers as URIs,
and gives full contact information for the namespace authority for that
entry. Moreover, the INFO Registry is readable by both humans and
machines alike.

For more information about the INFO URI scheme, see the FAQ at
<http://info-uri.info/registry/docs/misc/faq.html>.

About NISO NISO, a non-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains,
and publishes technical standards to manage information in our changing
and ever-more digital environment. NISO standards apply both traditional
and new technologies to the full range of information-related needs,
including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation.
www.niso.org

* Both Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Uniform Resource Names
(URNs) are types of URIs. While URLs are locators, or addresses, on the
Web, URNs are names on the Web. The INFO URI scheme is a special type of
URN which complements regular URNs but is designed to be simpler and
more convenient both to manage and to use.


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Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD  20814-5248
T. 301-654-2512, F. 301-654-1721
www.niso.org

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