"Oldroyd, Bill" wrote: > > C) As record metadata, it belongs with record metadata, however we handle > this. > I agree, record metadata would need to contain an element that meant "this > is the persistent URI for this record". I believe it would be better to > fetch records on the basis of this element rather than record x in result > set y. Is there a proposal, and if so is it: (a) add a "persistent identifier" to the list of metadata elements at http://srw.o-r-g.org/schemas/rec/1.0/, or (b) add a <persistentIdentifier> element to the sequence (<recordSchema>, <recordData>, <recordPosition>) for recordType in the wsdl at http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/srw-types.xsd ? --Ray