I think that using a URI is still the correct answer for the sake of easy
interoperability. If for SRU you define some aliases like urn:dc because
you don't want to clutter the URL to the record with long URIs, then
that's fine, but I don't think it should be encouraged and the full name
should be returned in the recordSchema in the response.
In SRW it's simply wrong, IMO, to use short names as there's no advantage
to it at all. Surely you'd never present either the URI or the short name
to the end user. The end user would never type in either of them.
Rob
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