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20 Years of Persistent Identifiers – Which Systems are Here to Stay?
2017
Data Science Journal
Web-based persistent identifiers have been around for more than 20 years, a period long enough for us to start observing patterns of success and failure. Persistent identifiers were invented to address challenges arising from the distributed and disorganised nature of the internet, which often resulted in URLs to internet endpoints becoming invalid. Over the years several different persistent identifier systems have been applied to the identification of research data, not all with the same
doi:10.5334/dsj-2017-009
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