uid-brainstorming

From Microformats Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

UID Brainstorming

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

Authors

  • 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

  • can we reuse uid from hCard

See Also

  • 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.

Related Discussion