uid-brainstorming

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UID Brainstorming

This page is for brainstorming about ideas, proposals, constraints, requirements for a UID microformat.

Authors

  • Tantek Çelik
  • Ed Summers

Experience

  • a microformat for indicating something *is* an identifier rather than the solved problem of providing a microformat *for* identifiers (RFC 2396)

Goals Requirements

  • a method of publishing an asserted globally unique identifier for a piece of content or a referenced item

Thoughts

It seems like in the 80% case (perhaps 99.99% case on the Web), a UID

Proposals

Just use UID from hCard

  • Tantek proposed that we see if we can reuse uid from hCard, similar to how we have reused geo and adr from hCard.

References

See Also

  • RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers
  • RFC 4452 the "info" URI scheme for information assets with identifiers in public namespaces.
  • COinS for putting attaching openurl context objexts to a span.
  • unAPI has a technique for embedding IDs in html so that they can be retrieved from an unAPI service.
  • Tag URI an algorithm that lets people mint identifiers that no one else using the same algorithm could ever mint.

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