Jonathan Rees, of Creative Commons, passes the announcment below on. Note that there are other things co-located in Bristol at the time of this workshop, associated with the 7th International Digital Curation Conference, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/ and in London that week is also the 4th International SWAT4LS Workshop on Semantic Web Application and Tools for the Life Sciences. http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/london2011/ ============== Domain names and persistence workshop, Bristol UK, 8 Dec 2011 Is there a chance of establishing "persistent identifiers" with http: prefix? How? Do we already have them? Are they impossible? Come to Bristol and help us figure this out. Sponsored by W3C TAG and the Digital Curation Center. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/idcc_workshop.html http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/workshops ============ --Bob -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University email: morris.bob@gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)