Persistent identifiers – an overview
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 by Juha HakalaAuthor: Juha Hakala
Senior adviser, The National Library of Finland
juha.hakala@helsinki.fi
Abstract:
This article describes five persistent identifier systems (ARK, DOI, PURL, URN and XRI) and compares their functionality against the cool URIs. The aim is to provide an overview, not to give any kind of ranking of these systems. (more…)