[libdb-develop] Re: [Bibliophile-development] citation ids?

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

> Still, I don't know how a long string of numbers
 > generated by individual dbs helps though.

Someone may want to poke around in the RDF/SW world for this one. They 
have very similar problems: if I, myself, give me a URI of dc:morbusiff, 
there is nothing stopping another person, unknown to be, calling me 
dc:morbus_iff in their application. How could the RDF/SW ever function 
with these statements that refer to the same thing, only with different 
IDs? The only relevant response I got back was a conversion router: feed 
it one ID, and get back a list of all relevant IDs that are equivalent, 
very similar to the OCLC's xISBN service:

  http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/default.htm

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