Re: [libdb-develop] locations

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

>This is a reasonable conclusion to come to.  Indeed the MODS developers
>came to the same conclusion initially as well.   But then I and a
>couple of other people pointed out that a uri is a location too; or at
>least it can be thought of in such a way.  A DOI is an identifier that
>can resolve to a location (a url), is how I'd tend to think of it.

Quite true, but they're identifiers first - they're "higher"
in the hierarchy of intent (DOI to URL, URI to URL). Just
because they *eventually* resolve to a location shouldn't classify
them as locations, anymore that an Amazon ASIN (which is ONLY
accessible via a URL/location) should be considered a location
*more* than an identifier.

Ultimately, with the Internet, *any* identifier shares the
same property as an electronic asset: an ISBN can be resolved
into a URL/location at ISBN.nu, UPCs are being stored in
upcdatabase.com, etc., etc.

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