Meme ID

From Memography

A meme ID is a globally unique identifier (GUID) for a meme.

For example, MEMO-ZIP-02138 is a meme ID for the area in Cambridge, MA around Harvard University.

A meme ID wrapped in an HTML hyperlink is called a memelink.

<a href="http://www.memography.org/index.php/MEMO-ZIP-02138">MEMO-ZIP-02138</a> is a memelink to the meme aboutness page on this memography wiki.

The aboutness page serves as a unique home for descriptions of the meme and how to make proper use of the meme.

The URI for the aboutness page also can serve as a property/value URI for use in RDF triples for the Semantic Web.

A meme ID has three parts, the memespace name, the taxospace name, and the ID.

MEMESPACE-TAXOSPACE-ID

Some examples of memespace names and taxonomy space names.

MEMO-UPC uses the Universal Product Code or barcode. A UPC consists of twelve digits, thus a valid product meme ID is MEMO-UPC-036000291452.

MEMO-ISBN uses the International Standard Book Number. Thus the meme ID for Peter Morville's book Ambient Findability that inspired memography and the memetic web is MEMO-ISBN-0596007655.

MEMO-DDC could use the Dewey Decimal Classification number if we can arrange appropriate licenses for usage with the Memography system for the memetic web. MEMO-DDC-959.7043 is a meme ID for the Vietnam War. Since the DDC is translated into 30+ languages, in Vietnamese this is the meme ID for the "American" War. The DDC is copyright by the OCLC.

MEMO-UNSPSC will use the United Nations Standard Products and Services Classification codes.

MEMO-RFID can use the new Radio Frequency IDentification system for identifying and tracking unique physical objects.