[gcs-pcs-list] big day in #code4lib

[Daniel Chudnov]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Mike Rylander wrote:

> A 4+ hour conversation started today around the real differences
> between OpenURL and unAPI.  Excepting some initial ... um ...
> emotional/evangelical responses from several interested parties (me
> included), it was all very civil, and we managed to come to a truce,
> if not an agreement, on some things.  What follows is my
> interpretation of the discussion, distilled, for your viewing
> pleasure, from about 400K of scrollback buffer.

Oh dear.


> 5) the use of URI for resource identifiers is confusing, with regard
> to identifier opacity/transparency

For those of us who missed it, please define "opaque" and  
"transparent" w/r/to identifiers, in this context.  I think I know  
what you mean, but I'm not certain.

There are a lot of different issues mixed together in your summary so  
your summary is a little too "opaque" for me to understand (i.e. I  
cannot see the light through it :).

   -Dan