netref Namespace of NISO Standard for Network Reference Services 2004-03-04 NetRef Maintenance Agency (temporarily, Library of Congress) 101 Independence Ave. SE 20540 Washington DC http://www.loc.gov/standards/netref/ Ray Denenberg rden@loc.gov 202-707-5795 There are a number of netref object types that require unambiguous identifiers in order for the protocol to function properly. These include metadata elements, constraints, diagnostics, and schemas.The syntax would thus be: info:netref/<netref object type>/<sub-authority>/<id> example: info:netref/metadata/1/question-id http://www.loc.gov/standards/netref/infoURI.html For information about this NISO activity see: http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_az.html (Temporary note: this is analogous to the SRW info namespace.) http://www.loc.gov/sru/infoURI.html