Re: Persistent Identifiers for organizations/institutions.

From: Kyle Banerjee <kyle.banerjee_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:32:26 -0700
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Edward Summers <ehs_at_pobox.com> wrote:

> What if we created an identifier system that organizations would pay an
> annual feel to belong to? This identifier would be guaranteed to be
> globally unique as long as the organization cared to maintain it. You could
> use this identifier with your web browser to find information about the
> organization.
>

Excellent illustration of the problem -- the amount and complexity of
information is orders of magnitude simpler, and we can see how that has and
continues to work.

kyle
Received on Fri Oct 13 2017 - 14:34:12 EDT