Persistent Identifiers: Commercial and heritage views (Learning Object included)

Aim: skill

Intended audience:

• library and information professionals & masters students
• heritage (museum, archive, gallery) professionals &
• masters students
  

Learning outcomes – readers should aim to:

• understand what persistent identifiers are used for in the commercial sector (and a little of what they are not for!)
• know some of the “state of the art”, latest developments in identifier technologies in the heritage sector
  
• start thinking about how digital cultural heritage online may be enriched in future with wider use of Web identifiers like DOI