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- CNRI Handle System (George)
- ProofWe recommend that CUL undertake a proof-of-concept implementation of the CNRI Handle System. We would hope to test the system's ability to meet all of our requirements and gain insight and skill in the technical and organizational demands of maintaining a persistent identifier system. CNRI provides free handle server software and documentation. We envision a local system that can be administered in a distributed manner, so caretakers of different collections will be able to make autonomous decisions about the identifiers their collections use. We also recognize that a proof-of-concept system might prove to be of limited or no use in the long run. During the period of experimentation we would ensure that the digital objects we give identifiers to would be able to be remapped to their original URLs or some other useful identifer system.(Bill)
- Resource Requirements -- we don't know what the requirements are (development? a standalone machine? server space? maintenance?) (John)
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