[topicmapmail] PSI repository

[Kal Ahmed]

I've been following this discussion over the last couple of days with
some interest and it has provoked some thoughts which you can read at
[1]

In general it seems to me that there is nothing wrong in the decision to
create a registry for PSIs. Nor do I see anything special about the
purl.org/psi  sub-domain that should prevent it from being used as such
(should the holder of the URI choose to do so). In the end, the use of
any given PSI is made by the developer of the application - hopefully in
the best interests of the end-users of that application.

Cheers,

Kal

[1] http://www.techquila.com/blog/archives/000010.html


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:48, Murray Altheim wrote:
> Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> [...]
> > Maybe I've got things back-to-front, but I'm more talking about
> > how people can *donate* their PSI's for use more than taking
> > harsh ownership of them. If they are donated to a repository,
> > then they can be used by all, free and without any strings
> > attached.
> 
> Are we conflating registries and repositories? I've been addressing
> the purl.org issues, which have to do with the ability to use a
> base URI of
> 
>    http://purl.org/psi/
> 
> for PSIs that are registered with Tony, where he would redirect
> URIs from purl.org/psi to say, my PSI sets on my domain. In this
> way my PSI sets can begin with that nice base URI. The purl.org
> site doesn't contain *anything*, it merely redirects URI requests.
> 
> So by "donation" I'll assume (in this context) that people interested
> in donating PSI sets to the community would post them on their own
> site, or perhaps some central site set up by Tony (it wouldn't actually
> matter, since the redirection is invisible), and then people could
> begin using the donated PSIs.
> 
> The only difference between what can happen right now and after
> some process is set up for use of Tony's PURL domain is the ability
> to use that base URI. Remember, purl.org is not a repository, and
> in actuality it's not even a registry, but using it to redirect
> requested URIs to existing, other domains would make it effectively
> into a registry. It would be entirely appropriate for Tony to then
> set up a web page at the resolved page of the domain that listed
> the "registered" subdomains and PSI sets.
> 
> > As for their officialness - as I think you are mostly addressing -
> > then you are right in that our "hobby project" not will gain
> > the support from "big serious contenders" that one might wish
> > for, but again ... I kinda feel that we should leave that
> > descission up to "as time goes by". Who knows? You are certain that it 
> > won't work, and I can understand why.
> 
> I'm not certain it won't work, I'm merely trying to point out the
> problems that exist in any kind of top-level domains. The SUMO work
> has had all of these problems and more. Standards are by their nature
> coercive, though if the community that creates them has some measure
> of consensus from the community of use (this isn't always the case),
> as I said this can be *minimized*.
> 
> > Part of my thinking was that we fire up the project, get
> > the software up and running, GPL everything, so that *if*
> > a committee feels like doing something serious, an API and
> > complete software package is there for them to use, and possibly, if all 
> > is well in TM land, some PSI's to start
> > using straight away.
> 
> I would imagine that all PSI sets will be either web pages or topic
> map documents, and they'll likely all have their own licenses already
> attached. The only thing one might do is copyright the web pages
> for the site itself, if that was considered desireable.
> 
> Murray
> 
> ......................................................................
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