Some introductions and surveys:
http://www.bic.org.uk/uniquid.html
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue8/unique-identifiers/
http://www.elsevier.com/inca/homepage/about/infoident/Menu.shtml
Persistent unique identifiers are already in use for linking citations:
http://www.crossref.org
Persistent unique identifiers are closely related to rights management.
A nice paper on this subject:
http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2001/papers/html/s25-2.html
TSO is already appointed as Digital Object Identifier Registration Agency:
http://www.doi.org/news/TSO.html
http://www.tso.co.uk/news/site.asp?FO=39685&DI=504297
If the things that you want to identify persistently are concepts,
you may also be interested in the work done by the OASIS Topic
Maps Published Subjects Technical Committee,
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/index.shtml
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/#desc-psis
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/docs/index.htm
Kind regards
Peter Ring
Magnus Informatik A/S
A Wolters Kluwer Company
-----Original Message-----
From: Maewyn Cumming [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26. februar 2003 10:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Persistent identifiers
Has anyone done any work on the different systems for persistent unique
identifiers? I need to make recommendations regarding the best way forward
for the UK government and would love to see some independent research, or
hear about people's experience.
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