info URI scheme

In computing, info is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme which enables identifiers from public namespaces to be represented as URIs, when they would otherwise have no canonical URL form, such as Library of Congress identifiers, Handle System handles, and Digital object identifiers.

Specification

The specification for the info scheme is provided by the Informational RFC 4452.[1]

Example

The following is an example of an info URI:

info:ddc/22/eng//004.678

In this example, "ddc" designates the Dewey Decimal Classification namespace and "22/eng//004.678" is the identifier within that namespace.

Namespace Registry

Between 2003 and 2010, info namespaces were registered by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Office of Research on behalf of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), an American library standards body. About 30 namespaces were registered.[2]

In 2010, the registry was closed, in view of the increasing importance of the W3C Linked Data paradigm, and adopters of the info scheme were advised to migrate resource identity requirements towards "mainstream Web practices."[3]

gollark: Replying to https://discord.com/channels/346530916832903169/348702212110680064/748567160003100752No, I mean it's at least nontrivial to update text files in a way which won't break if the server implodes halfway through.
gollark: True, although it has some very nice convenient features and I think osmarksßsystemd should try and have them.
gollark: I am beginning to understand why systemd was developed.
gollark: Who would write an INIT SYSTEM in SHELL SCRIPTS? AAAAAAAAAAAAA
gollark: Atomic file I/O is hard.

References
  1. "The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces". Internet Engineering Task Force Network Working Group. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  2. ""info" URI Scheme Registry Entries".
  3. "Notice".
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