Can anyone on the list offer some comment on how the <eadid> element is
being used?  It is intended to provide a unique identifier, but as part of
a project I am involved it, I am having trouble deciding whether it can be
reliably used to point to the location of the actual EAD file.  This
becomes an issue when you aggreggate files from numerous repositories into
one database (like I am attempting to do)

I notice versions encoded in SGML typically include SGML catalog entries, but
what are people doing for XML files?  Is anyone using a handle technology
like URN's or DOI's that are resolvable?  Do people use URL.  Or are
people just giving a local file name or identifier along with a systemID
attribute?  That has been my past practice.


Chris Prom
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