On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Kevin Richards wrote:
hasScientificNameID = http resolvable URI hasScientificNameURN = LSID or other URN
If you define the convention for the value for hasScientificNameID to be a http-resolvable URI, then that obviates the need for the second, doesn't it? LSIDs, as much as Handles, DOIs and other non-HTTP URI identifiers either have already or will have to have proxy forms that make them resolvable HTTP URIs, or otherwise I would argue there is little use for them in the standard.
What is the use-case that requires the LSID, but not other non-HTTP identifier schemes, to be in a separate element, if there is already an element that can be expected to have a resolvable HTTP URI? What is special about LSIDs in this respect?
-hilmar