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KevinH · 07-25-2017, 11:14 AM

My 2 cents here:

All of these seem correct.

But since refines go away under epub 3.1 metadata rules, and because the official rules of Universe Resource Name (urn:) are quite vague and do not require use of an "identifier-type", I would stick with the simplest approach for epub 3.0, using

<dc:identifier id="amazon-id">urn:AMAZON:BXXXXXXXXX</dc:identifier>

with no extra refines as parsing that urn provides all of the information needed to fully understand the identifier.

07-25-2017, 11:14 AM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,851 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	My 2 cents here: All of these seem correct. But since refines go away under epub 3.1 metadata rules, and because the official rules of Universe Resource Name (urn:) are quite vague and do not require use of an "identifier-type", I would stick with the simplest approach for epub 3.0, using <dc:identifier id="amazon-id">urn:AMAZON:BXXXXXXXXX</dc:identifier> with no extra refines as parsing that urn provides all of the information needed to fully understand the identifier. Last edited by KevinH; 07-25-2017 at 01:21 PM.