The interesting (and new) feature of the system is its ability
to resolve to MULTIPLE locations (URL's, or data, or content).
The same identifier can resolve to a Universe of inter-related
information (effectively, to a mini-library). The content thus
resolved need not be limited to text. Multiple resolution
works with audio, images, and even video.
The IDF's press release is worth some extensive quoting:
"Imagine you're the manager of an Internet company reading a
story online in the "Wall Street Journal" written by Stacey E.
Bressler, a co-author of Communities of Commerce, and at the
end of the story there is a link to purchase options for the
book.
Now imagine you are an online retailer, a syndicator or a
reporter for an online news service and you are reading a
review in "Publishers Weekly" about Communities of Commerce
and you run across a link to related resources.
And imagine you are in Buenos Aires, and in an online
publication you encounter a link to "D-Lib Magazine", an
electronic journal produced in Washington, D.C. which offers
you locale-specific choices for downloading an article.
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