Re: [Handle-info] Handle identifier and URN - what about the slash?

[Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>]

Daniel Rehak wrote:

> The latest (I think) URI RFC is 3986.  It implies that you should use
> URIs as the generic model, not URN.

I know - everything is an URI but this does not help that much. URNs do
also exist and I am asked to create URNs *and* handles, so I'd like to
encode my handles in an URN namespace like is it used in DOI. I'm still
unsure whether and where to encode the slash in a handle if I make an
URN out of it. If you say that just prefixing the handle with "urn:hdl:"
is a common way and fine to make an URN than it's ok.

> You might look at
> http://cordra.net/docs/applicationprofiles/uri/v1p00/ap-uri-v1p00.php
> if you want to see some options for URI encoding.

Thanks for pointing me to this. Finally I start to understand Handle :-)
But the fact that CORDIS own handle id is not accessible via the
handle.net resolver does not make a good impression:

http://hdl.handle.net/2000.01/FFEE9F72B00C4189B137ECD34188B94E

This brings me to a simple but basic question about Handle: where is the
main registry? How can I find out which naming authorities exist? Is
there a public database? I only know DOI and luckily all DOIs i tested
with http://dx.doi.org also work with http://hdl.handle.net/

Greetings,
Jakob

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