Status Report: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) at the Montana State Library Jim Kammerer • Best Practices Exchange, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 2:55-3:55 p.m. 11.02.2018
Current repository at Internet Archive PURL Server Client Yet-to-be-created- local repository
Current status of persistent identifiers at Montana State Library: 2009-12-28 Date of the first created PURL at MSL. ● 2015-08-19 Date of the last PURL created at MSL. ● 7,759 Total number of PURLs created by MSL. ● 26,443 Total number of items at Internet Archive. ● Issues: Inability to create new PURLs using the same prefix. ● Minimal PURL service support. ● Staff turnover. Missing documentation. ● Cursory research indicates modest rate of adoption by institutional repositories ● worldwide. Also, DNS name system controlled by outside organizations. PURLs.
Questions: Your opinion of our current situation with PURLs. ● How do you provide assurance of long term access to your digital objects? ● What are your ideas/experiences with persistent identifiers? ● Are you using persistent identifiers? Why or why not? Which ones? ● Do you really need them? ●
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