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For Identifiers (just the complete URI and local part, not about mechanisms)

HDL

 

HDL

PURL

PURLz

HNRS

DOI

permanent

permanently resolve to a digital object

unique within our PID system without the DNS name portion of the

URL

works with VIVO, arXiv, OAIS (CUL), Voyager Catalog, and WorldCat etc.

resolvable through a web browser

Simplicity

support for a local namespace prefix and an identifier part

support for opaque identifiers

Local part should not be Cornell branded

may be surrogate for physical object

should be short (so use 26 letters plus numbers)

should be easy to copy by hand

For Resolver and System

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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For Resolver and System

 

HDL

PURL

PURLz

HNRS

DOI

 

Supports billions of identifiers

Robust architecture

Robust implementation

ability to request metadata about the identifier

lightweight understanding of identifier equivalence

should be easily discoverable by Google

integrate well with the "web architecture"

PID corresponding to every Cornell NetID

useful error when check digit is wrong.

vitality checking

Need to avoid unbounded generation of surrogate persistent identifiers

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identifiers

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HDL is Corporation of National Research Initiatives's Handle system.
PURL is OCLC's PURL system.
PURLz is Zepheira's and OCLC's new persistent URL work.
HNRS is the Harvard Name Resolution Service.
DOI is IDF's DOI system.