Re: [Handle-info] 0.type

["Peter C. Gorman" <pgorman@library.wisc.edu>]

Sean,

At a simpler level, it would be nice even to have labeled URIs, so 
users confronted with multiple URLs for a resource have something to 
help them choose. We have a construct like this in our local data 
dictionary, though we haven't yet implemented it in our Handle 
records. We use it with descriptive metadata elements like 
dc.relation, where we want to provide some basic context for an 
external link:

<labeledURI>
    <label>HTML version</label>
    <uri scheme="URL">http://my.library.edu/myResource/</uri>
</labeledURI>

A richer LOCATION structure would certainly be useful, however.

At 1:32 PM -0500 11/22/06, Sean Reilly wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to see a new type with a more flexible (and 
> extensible) definition of "location" of an object.  For example, 
> instead of just a single URL in a value with type "URL" you could 
> have one "LOCATION" value containing an XML blurb describing all the 
> different locations in which the object resides, attributes of each 
> location (ie language, geographic/network locality, digest/hash of 
> the resource, location priority/weight, different types of URIs, 
> href base (as a handle) etc).  If this were implemented the 
> hdl.handle.net proxy could be updated to redirect clients based on 
> the richer data in the LOCATION value and fall back to using the URL 
> value if there were no more detailed LOCATION information.

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