On 5/14/07, Jason Griffey <Jason-Griffey_at_utc.edu> wrote:
> This is a really interesting idea...something like OpenID for authority information.
Actually, it's more like RDF. A name is assigned a URI (that may or
may not resolve as a URL) that no other name can occupy. OpenID
assumes that somebody can log in and use that identity on the web
(which is quite a different use case).
If the URI is a URL, the authority record could be returned with a
stylesheet that produces to a browser something like a Worldcat
Identities page (http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/) or a marcxml
authority file to a machine.
Given how our data can be (and should be!) spread among various
formats and services, RDF seems a very logical delivery mechanism for
our metadata.
-Ross.
Received on Mon May 14 2007 - 19:52:57 EDT