[osis-users] Work osisIDs

[Weston Ruter]

I'm looking into how osisIDs can be used to unambiguously and precisely
identify an exact edition/revision of a work. The manual states:

The parts of an osisID may contain any mixture of numbers, letters, and
> underscores.
> […]
>
The prefix to an osisID must contain at least one letter, number or
> underscore, that may be followed by any
> number of letters, numbers or underscores, separated by periods, and
> concluding in a colon ":"
>

The example prefixes found in the manual are:

Bible.en.ABS.CEV.1995
Bible.en.NIV.1984
Bible.en.KJV
Bible.KJV

The following illustrates the components:

Bible(.$lang)?(.$publisher)?.$abbr(.$year)?

It would seem that all components are needed to unambiguously identify a
work. Furthermore, in order to precisely identify a particular revision,
some more granularity should be possible (these numbers I am making up):

Bible.en.ABS.CEV.19950123123000

And not only ISO timestamp, but also a revision number (or edition number)
seems like it would be necessary:

Bible.en.ABS.CEV.19950123123000.r273
or
Bible.en.ABS.CEV.ed2.19950123123000

Is there some standard for constructing these more granular osisIDs to
precisely identify works? Having a standard format would be ideal so that
the information can be parsed out of the osisID.

Thanks!
Weston
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