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Indeed, I was wondering why not to adopt an approach similar to a Git repo where each leaf (document) is identified with a ref hash.
It could be used with a publisher prefix to segment the hash-space.
Basically, it's a repository of metadata. Each publisher could equally host the whole repo, but extend only their corresponding sub-repo.
The central entity could then maintain the publisher's name-to-id convenience xref and some search facility.
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Indeed, I was wondering why not to adopt an approach similar to a Git repo where each leaf (document) is identified with a ref hash.
It could be used with a publisher prefix to segment the hash-space.
Basically, it's a repository of metadata. Each publisher could equally host the whole repo, but extend only their corresponding sub-repo.
The central entity could then maintain the publisher's name-to-id convenience xref and some search facility.