Report of the Working Group to Evaluate Persistent Identifiers for Digital Objects at CUL

 April 20, 2006

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Bill Kehoe and Rick Silterra conceived of the need for this group while discussing their desire for a consistent strategy for global and persistent identifiers (PIDs) for digital objects. They recognized the integral role that PIDs would play in several ongoing project, including Priority Teams One and Two and the MathArc project. They believed the best way to achieve consensus for a strategy would be through a lightweight, focused, and efficient process. They hoped to assemble a small group of people designing  systems that use identifiers, who could vet the different approaches to PIDs with the goal of finding the most appropriate PID strategy for use on these projects. Marcy Rosenkrantz, Nancy McGovern and Oya Reiger proceeded to help organize a group of people to carry out the evalutation process.  It included (in alphabetical order):

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