[Irtalk] Persistent identifiers for local collections | hangingtogether.org

[Hilton Gibson]

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners
metadata managers, initiated by Jackie Shieh of George Washington
University, Naun Chew of Cornell and Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University.
Information professionals want to repurpose, present and connect the data
they have created and curated from century-old standards and practices by
publishing library metadata in the linked data framework. Recent linked
data efforts have highlighted the importance of identifiers— a unique
alphanumeric string associated with a digital object and resolvable
globally over networks via specific protocols that is unambiguous to use,
find, and identify the resource. Local identifiers cannot be shared or
re-used. *We need identifiers to be unchanging over time, and independent
of where the digital object is or will be stored, that is, “persistent”.
Persistent identifiers help collections become accessible globally, as they
can be used, shared and re-used.*

http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5445

*​Also see:
​http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Electronic_Citation_Persistence
<http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Electronic_Citation_Persistence>*
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