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What sort of persistent identifiers does DSpace use?

April 26, 2017DSpace identifiers persistent sort

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What sort of persistent identifiers does DSpace use?

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DSpace uses the Handle System from CNRI to assign and resolve persistent identifiers for each and every digital item. Handles are URN-compliant identifiers, and the Handle resolver is an open-source system which is used in conjunction with the DSpace system. Handles were chosen in preference to persistent URLs because of the desire to support citations to items in DSpace over very long time spans longer than we believe the HTTP protocol will last. Handles in DSpace are currently implemented as URLs, but can also be modified to work with future protocols.