Persistent Identifiers: What if? (Learning Object included)

About the Learning Object

Summary

This Learning object deals with Persistent identifiers (PIDs).
It is divided into 17 sub-units each of which consists of two parts: a dialogue between two owlets (on the left of the screen) introducing PIDs, and a video (on the right of the screen) representing the concepts.
The idea was to use the famous painting by Botticelli, the Birth of Venus, as a metaphor.

The PID functional requirements are uniqueness, persistency, resolvability, reliability, authoritativeness, flexibility, interoperability and cost effectiveness and in this LO they are represented by visual and musical metaphors. If any of them go missing, the painting can no longer be identified.
The video shows how the painting is gradually altered by eliminating, adding or changing any of these functional requirements and how it returns to its original state once its PID requirements are back in place.

Using the Learning Object

This learning object can be accessed by any modern Web browser.
The video can be downloaded in High Definition.
The text can be downloaded as a .txt file.

Aim: to provide skill

Although this LO is aimed at managers of cultural institutions, it is also interesting for entry level LIS professionals.
Its contents, supplemented by training materials and further readings, raise awareness and provide users with basic information on PIDs and their applications in digital collections of cultural institutions.

Learning Object

English language version

French language version

German language version

Greek language version

Polish language version

Spanish language version

Readings and training materials

Cases studies

Training materials

Bibliography

Case studies

Bellini, E., Cirinnà, C., Lunghi, M., Luddi, C., Messina, M., Bergamin, G., Messuti, R., Cordani, G., Delle Donne, R., Rossi, F., Vignocchi, M., Arabito, S. & Piščanc, J. 2012, "The National Bibliography Number Italia (NBN:IT) Project. A persistent identifier supporting national legal deposit for digital resources", JLIS.it, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-26. Available at: http://leo.cilea.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/urn%3Anbn%3Ait%3Aunifi-3866 [accessed 18/9/2012]

Training materials

This section contains the Linked Heritage Project deliverables and booklets, sister project booklets (Athena, Minerva), slides, guidelines and manuals edited by Linked Heritage partner Institutions (both in English and in their native language) relevant to the topic.

Persistent identifiers (PIDs): recommendation for institutions (en)

A short introduction why “persistent identifiers” are needed and what systems are currently available. Edited by ATHENA WP3 Working Group “Identifying standards and developing recommendations” (2011) 34 p. http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:6778

State of the art report on persistent identifier standards and management tools (en)

This deliverable concerns persistent identifiers (PIDs) in cultural heritage information repositories with respect to standards, management best practices and software and hardware architectures for PID assignment and management.Edited by Work package 2 of the Linked Heritage project (WP 2), (2012) 46 p.  http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:11908

Bibliography

A reference list of websites inspired by the Athena project
Booklet: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs): recommendations for institutions by Gordon McKenna and Roxanne Wyns, 2011. Available at: www.athenaeurope.org/getFile.php?id=779

DEFINITIONS

http://www.ands.org.au/guides/persistent-identifiers-awareness.html
http://prezi.com/d0s1liez5llt/knowledge-exchange-persistent-identifiers/

STANDARDS

• a. Dublin Core

  http://dublincore.org/
  
  

• b. Physical objects in museums

  http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/spectrum-standard
  
  

• c. Digital objects

  URI: http://info-uri.info/, http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
  XRI: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xri
  URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738
  URN: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2141
  
  

• d. Services

  PURL: http://purl.org/docs/index.html, http://purl.oclc.org/docs/help.html#overview
  HANDLE system: http://www.handle.net/ , http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3650.txt
  DOI system: http://www.doi.org/ , http://www.doi.org/hb.html
  OPEN URL: http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/docs/pdf/openurl-01.pdf
  ARK: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK
  LCCN: http://lccn.loc.gov
  EPICUR: http://www.persistent-identifier.de/
  NBN Italy: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/projects-nbn.phtml
  N2T: http://n2t.net/
  NESTOR: http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Subsites/nestor/DE/Home/home_node.html, http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Subsites/nestor/DE/Standardisierung/PI.html
  PILIN: http://www.arrow.edu.au/PILIN.php

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Australian National Data Service, Persistent identifiers awareness: beginner/awareness level. Available at: http://www.ands.org.au/guides/persistent-identifiers-awareness.html [accessed 23/3/2012]

Australian National Data Service, Persistent identifiers: working level. Available at: http://www.ands.org.au/guides/persistent-identifiers-working.html [accessed 23/3/2012]

Bellini, E., Cirinnà, C., Lunghi, M., Persistent Identifiers for Cultural Heritage. Available at: http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/[accessed 23/3/2012]