Designing a Metadata-Enabled Namespace for Accessing Resources Across Domains

As Stephen DeRose noted in 1997, "Navigation requires naming, as does access whether by database, catalog, finding aid, or hypertext link. Choosing the right names for information units is perhaps the most crucial issue facing the electronic document community" (p.301). While recent work emanating from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has focused on the. . .