Date:         Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:50:39 -0400
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From:         Bruce D'Arcus <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: info:xv proposal
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On Oct 20, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:

> > The info:xv/1/mods/ seems to exist at a further level of abstraction
> I don't think so. It would be analogous to the srw case.  The main 
> authority would be whoever registers 'sv' as an info URI namespace, 
> perhaps LC, and then that authority would assign sub-authorities, "1", 
> "2", etc. who would then register schemas.

I don't really understand the issues here, but with respect to this, I 
think Karen is right that there is a rather large conceptual difference 
between defining a scheme that applies to a narrow realm (SRW), and one 
that essentially applies to anything ("XML Value").

Bruce