In the previous post I gave an overview of the JiscEXPO project outputs available so far, and hinted at ones coming soon. In this post I focus more on the themes and issues that are starting to appear. It can be quite difficult to distill these out of the information available, but I have been able to see a few patterns emerging, even though it is still relatively early days.
What need is there for unique identifiers?
Put in relatively non-technical language, there is an increasing concern in information science in general to uniquely identify different things, organisations or people that could otherwise be confused, whether on the Internet or in the physical world. In technical terms, these are all referred to as resources (even if people might find it vaguely demeaning in normal language to be considered as such).
