This This was just sent out to the DC-GENERAL mailing list about the new DCMI Community for Scholarly Communications. As Julie Allinson says: There’s also a DC-SCHOLAR mailing list (subscribe here). Not too much there yet, but it may be useful to track - or even to participate.

Was reminded to blog about this after reading Lorcan’s post on the Names Project being run by JISC.

Oh dear. Yesterday’s post “Using ISO URNs” was way off the mark. I don’t know. I thought that walk after lunch had cleared my mind. But apparently not. I guess I was fixing on eyeballing the result in RDF/N3 rather than the logic to arrive at that result.

The InChI (International Chemical Identifier from IUPAC) has been blogged earlier here. RSC have especially taken this on board in their Project Prospect and now routinely syndicate InChI identifiers in their RSS feeds as blogged here.

ISO has registered with the IANA a URN namespace identifier (“iso:”) for ISO persistent resources. From the Internet-Draft: The toplevel grammar rules (ABNF) give some indication of scope: std-nss = “std:” docidentifier *supplement *docelement [addition] Just wanted to quote here one of the funkier examples cited in the document: Wow! That’s some ID. That’s something else. As far as DOI is concerned there is nothing obvious to be learned.

( Update - 2007.10.02: Just realized that there were some serious flaws in the post below regarding publication and form of namespace URIs which I’ve now addressed in a subsequent post here.) By way of experimenting with a use case for ISO URNs, below is a listing of the document metadata for an arbitrary PDF.

On the subject of author IDs (a subject Crossref is interested in and on which held a meeting earlier this year, as blogged about here), this post by Karen Coyle “Name authority control, aka name identification” may be worth a read.

Been so busy looking into the technical details of XMP that I almost forgot to check out the current landcsape.

I’m always curious about names and where they come from and what they mean. Hence, my interest was aroused with the constant references to “XAP” in XMP. As the XMP Specification (Sept. 2005) says: Actually, it occurs in most of the core namespaces: XAP, rather than XMP.

A couple of recent posts - from A couple of recent posts - from at Jefferson University and IFST at Univ of Delaware- note that the AMA and APA style guides now recommend using a DOI, if one is assigned, in a journal article citation. A citation in the APA style with a DOI would be: In the AMA style a reference would be: This is great news.

ACAP has released some documents outlining the use cases they will be testing and some proposed changes to the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) - both robots.txt and META tags. There are some very practical proposals here to improve search engine indexing.