[Handle-info] Expressing handles as URIs

[Scott Prater <scott.prater@wisc.edu>]

What is the best practice to express a handle as a URI?  We've been 
using the convention "hdl:NA/XXXX..." for a while now, but reading 
through the handle RFCs and past list traffic, it looks like there is 
not an official "hdl" URI scheme, but that handles could be expressed 
within the info URI scheme (i.e. "info:hdl/NA/XXXX..."), as the "hdl" 
namespace is registered in the "info" registry[1].

We would like to use handles as PREMIS object identifiers, and express 
fragments as part of an identifier (not necessarily locatable, but 
that's okay -- these are URIs, not URLs).  I'm wondering if this is legal:

"hdl:NA/XXXXX#FRAGMENT"

or if this is preferred:

"info:hdl/NA/XXXXXX#FRAGMENT" (per the info URI schema).

[1] 
http://info-uri.info/registry/OAIHandler?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

thanks,

-- Scott

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Scott Prater
Shared Development Group
General Library System
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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