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Persistent Identifiers (Permalink) (Handle, Purl, URN, ARK, XRI…)

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1 Creating a local index using persistent identifiers (permalink) (handle, Purl, URN, ARK, XRI…) :

There are a lot of implementations about persistent identifiers out there. Young projects quickly have to deal with a lot of documentation pages. Those pages move fast and may be translated in several formats.
Then, retrieving a page, given its URL at some time, becomes complicated. One has to make sure all the links are not broken.

It would be nice to rely on an information about pages less subject to change, like their topic or an id.
A page would be given a name and an indexer would be used to resolve the location from this name (like in dns).

This appears to be exactly what do persistent identifiers mechanisms. In fact, DNS may be perceived as well as a persistent identifiers mechanism. This is a compilation of what I have found so far about the topic:

1.1 Bibliography :

1.1.1 Handle System Fundamentals :

http://www.handle.net/overviews/system_fundamentals.html

http://www.the-pope.com/aatrib.html

1.1.3 Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options | Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals :

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/tonkin

1.1.4 Introduction to Persistent Uniform Resource Locators :

http://www.isoc.org/inet96/proceedings/a4/a4_1.htm

1.1.5 KIM-TWR » Blog Archive » Persistent identifiers – an overview :

http://metadaten-twr.org/2010/10/13/persistent-identifiers-an-overview/

1.1.6 PersID - building a persistent identifier infrastructure - PersID Initiative :

http://www.persid.org/initiative.html

1.1.7 paradigm | workbook on digital private papers | administrative and preservation metadata | persistent identifiers :

http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/metadata/pids-handle.html

1.1.8 CurrentREADME - persistenturls - README.txt file for the Current PURL server release - Persistent URLs - Google Project Hosting :

http://code.google.com/p/persistenturls/wiki/CurrentREADME

1.1.9 PURLFAQ - persistenturls - PURL frequently asked questions - Persistent URLs - Google Project Hosting :

http://code.google.com/p/persistenturls/wiki/PURLFAQ

1.1.10 Extensible Resource Identifier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI

1.1.11 OpenXRI Project - XRI applications and libraries :

http://www.openxri.org/

1.1.12 Digital Object (DO) Repository Software :

http://www.dorepository.org/

1.1.13 Handle System Documentation :

http://www.handle.net/documentation.html

1.1.13.1 Handle System Fundamentals :

http://www.handle.net/overviews/system_fundamentals.html

1.1.14 How do you combine persistent identifiers (handle, Purl, URN, ARK, XRI…) with Linked Data URIs? - ANSWERS :

http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/3519/how-do-you-combine-persistent-identifiers-handle-purl-urn-ark-xri-with-linked-data-uris