Joy, hello.
On 2010 Sep 30, at 11:22, Joy Davidson wrote:
> EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid)
> EZID is a service that makes it simple for digital object producers
> (researchers and others) to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for
> their digital content. The service is available via both a programming
> interface (an API that software can use) and a web user interface.
That's interesting. Do you know where one goes to discuss these?
In particular, is it clear whether this is fundamentally different from purl.org? Obviously, it's a different implementation of the same basic idea, and it uses ARKs, but is there an argument why one should use this rather than purl.org, in terms of the long-term persistence model, or curation style, or...?
I'm interested, because I'm trying to draft some proposals for long-term-stable URIs for astronomy, and this is (most opportunely, thanks!) grist to that mill.
All the best,
Norman
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