Implementing persistent identifiers
An edition of Implementing persistent identifiers (2006)
overview of concepts, guidelines and recommendations
By Hans-Werner Hilse
Publish Date
2006
Publisher
Consortium of European Research Libraries,European Commission on Preservation and Access
Language
eng
Pages
57
Description:
This report was written to explain the principle of persistent identifiers and help institutions decide which scheme would best fit their needs. It discusses Handles, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs), Uniform Resource Names (URNs), National Bibliographical Numbers (NBNs), and the Open URL, providing examples and extensive references for each.