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@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ content. The goal is to have a very permissively licensed database: CC-0 (no rights reserved) if possible. Under US law, it should be possible to scrape and pull in factual data from other corpuses without adopting their licenses. The goal -here isn't to avoid all attibution (progeny information will be included, and a -large sources and acknowledgements statement should be maintained), but trying +here isn't to avoid all attribution (progeny information will be included, and a +large sources and acknowledgments statement should be maintained), but trying to manage the intersection of all upstream source licenses seems untenable, and creates burdens for downstream users. @@ -90,13 +90,13 @@ increasing version number for the entire corpus, and should make interaction with other systems easier (eg, search engines, replicated databases, alternative storage backends, notification frameworks, etc.). -## Itentifiers +## Identifiers -A fixed number of first class "entities" would be defined, with common +A fixed number of first-class "entities" would be defined, with common behavior and schema layouts. These would all be semantic entities like "work", "release", "container", and "person". -fatcat identifiers would be semanticly meaningless fixed-length random numbers, +fatcat identifiers would be semantically meaningless fixed-length random numbers, usually represented in case-insensitive base32 format. Each entity type would have its own identifier namespace. Eg, 96-bit identifiers would have 20 characters and look like: @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ persistent identifiers. Internally, identifiers would be lightweight pointers to actual metadata objects, which can be thought of as "versions". The metadata objects themselves -would be immutable once commited; the edit process is one of creating new +would be immutable once committed; the edit process is one of creating new objects and, if the edit is approved, pointing the identifier to the new version. Entities would reference between themselves by identifier. |