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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: ... > Note that when the RDA elements were added to the metadata registry, terms > were used rather than numbers. That has already caused problems because RDA > was only half-baked when the terms were added, and many have changed names. > *That's* the advantage of numbers. But humans prefer terms, and the > production registry can use either. The Open Library has taken a different > approach, and adds the human_readable term on at the end of the URL, after > the opaque identifier. I rather like that approach -- kind of the best of > both worlds. I suppose that helps. But the question is what do you do with the URIs? Ideal would just be that you could ping the URI and get back RDF/JSON/etc. with properly localized terms. Bruce