Download or read book Implementing Persistent Identifiers written by Hans-Werner Hilse and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report was written to explain the principle of persistent identifiers and help institutions decide which scheme would best fit their needs. It discusses Handles, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs), Uniform Resource Names (URNs), National Bibliographical Numbers (NBNs), and the Open URL, providing examples and extensive references for each.