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An important aspect of persistent identifiers is that "persistence is purely a matter of service". That means that persistent identifiers are only persistent to the degree that someone commits to resolving them for users. No identifier can be inherently persistent, however many persistent identifiers
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of paper-based documents so that readers could reliably and efficiently find a source that a writer mentioned in a footnote or bibliography. After the Internet started to become an important source of information in the 1990s, the issue of citation standards became important in the online world as
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The term "persistent identifier" is usually used in the context of digital objects that are accessible over the Internet. Typically, such an identifier is not only persistent but actionable: you can plug it into a web browser and be taken to the identified source.
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well. Studies have shown that within a few years of being cited, a significant percentage of web addresses go "dead", a process often called
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Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark; Herbert Van de Sompel (2011). "Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento".
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Of course, the issue of persistent identification predates the Internet. Over centuries, writers and scholars developed standards for
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John A. Kunze, "Towards Electronic Persistence Using ARK Identifiers," section 3, California Digital Library
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Vanishing Act: The Erosion of Online Footnotes and Implications for Scholarship in the Digital Age
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Posted to Technology Watch Report (TWR): Standards in Metadata and Interoperability, 13 Oct 2010.
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Combined persistent identifier and archiving functionality is provided by services such as the
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are created within institutionally administered systems with the aim to maximise longevity.
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Implementing persistent identifiers: overview of concepts, guidelines and recommendations.
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such that anyone can archive a web page to prevent link rot of a URL.
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and European Commission on Preservation and Access, 2006.
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Index

FAIR data
citation
link rot
URLs
permalinks
Open Researcher and Contributor ID
Research Organization Registry
Virtual International Authority File
International Standard Name Identifier
International Standard Book Number
Uniform Resource Identifiers
Archival Resource Key
Handle System
Digital Object Identifier
Magnet link
BitTorrent
Uniform Resource Names
Extensible Resource Identifiers
Persistent Uniform Resource Locators
Software Heritage
Wikidata
Internet Archive
perma.cc
archive.today
WebCite

arXiv
1105.3459
ISBN
978-1936117147

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