Source ID

["Pino Calzo" <pino@calzo.com>]

So we have as possible source values:
- ISBN (what's the registration procedure to get a issn? do web-publications have an issn?)
- DUNS (only for companies, but every company has a DUNS-Number - sometimes even multiple)
- HTTP URL

and the question why i do care :) 
1.
There has been the discussion that people want to be able to put quotes and citations from sources. example: a comment on a wired.com story, where the story-source itself serves as "source".

2.
In NewsIsFree i want to be able to show all coresponding news. One solution we made internally is, that we have a table "Publishers" with unique publisher IDs(which is just an autonumber). Like this, i know all sources coming from Wired.com.
If now eg. times.com would reference a wired.com article i have no way to know that (because there doesnt exist any overall source id, which uniquely identifies wired.com as wired.com... sorry for the clumsy writing :) )

In my opinion the HTTP URL would be a nice idea - but this should be fixed in some RSS standard.

btw: Dave - i completely agree that there is a huge mess in the RSS "standardization" and namings. Everyone who doesn't believe it: read the external view. (from a newsisfree.com standpoint i don't really care, because we take whatever there is and will come, but it's just not healthy for the RSS future. Just look to UNIX...)

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43444,00.html

regards

Pino