CONSER URI Task Force -- Reading List

URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers, Names, Locators (URIs, URNs, URLs)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
Handle System
CrossRef
OpenURL
Persistent URL (PURL)
Further reading


URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers, Names, Locators (URIs, URNs, URLs)

Web Naming and Addressing Overview (from W3C): http://www.w3.org/Addressing/#background

URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/

Berners-Lee, Tim. "Universal Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web Architecture." http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html

Berners-Lee, Tim. "Cool URIs Don't Change." http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

"Uniform Resource Names: A Progress Report." D-Lib Magazine, Feb. 1996. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february96/02arms.html


Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

Website:http://www.doi.org/

Introductory overview: http://www.doi.org/overview/sys_overview_021601.html

Erickson, John. "Digital Object Identifier." From McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2003.(good concise overview) http://www.doi.org/topics/je-mh-doi-030970.pdf

DOI handbook (table of contents): http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/toc.html
(Chapter 3: Resolution: http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/resolution.html)

Paskin, Norman. "DOI: A 2003 Progress Report." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 6 (2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june03/paskin/06paskin.html

List of DOI Registration Agencies (including CrossRef): http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html


International Standard Serial Number (ISSN):

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Using The ISSN (International Serial Standard Number) as URN (Uniform Resource Names) within an ISSN-URN Namespace: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3044.txt


Handle System:

Website: http://www.handle.net/

Handle System Overview (including syntax, resolution, etc.): http://www.handle.net/hs_manual/server_manual_2.html#SEC2

Handle Server Overview from LC's National Digital Library Program: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/handle-server.html

Articles, Papers, Presentations: http://www.handle.net/papers.html


CrossRef:

Website: http://www.crossref.org/

How Libraries use CrossRef (from website): http://www.crossref.org/03libraries/16lib_how_to.html

OpenURL and CrossRef (from website): http://www.crossref.org/03libraries/16openurl.html

Brand, Amy. "CrossRef Turns One." D-Lib Magazine, vol. 7, no. 5 (May 2001): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may01/brand/05brand.html

Brand, Amy. "CrossRef after Three Years." ICSTI Forum,  No. 44, Dec. 2003: http://www.icsti.org/forum/44/#crossref


OpenURL:

NISO Committee AX OpenURL website: http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/

OpenURL 1.0 Proposed Framework Standard, including Initial Registry Content, KEV Implementation Guidelines: http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/Standard.htm
(OpenURL 0.1: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/sfx_openurl_syntax.htm)

Open URL bibliography (Niso Committee AX page): http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/Bibliography.htm

OpenURL Resolver Products & Vendors (including SFX, etc. -- from Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group): http://www.loc.gov/catdir/lcpaig/openurl.html

RLG Focus 56 (covers some OpenURL implementations): http://www.rlg.org/r-focus/i56.html

Beit-Arie, Oren et al. "Linking to the Appropriate Copy: Report of a DOIBased Prototype." D-Lib Magazine, vol. 7, no. 9 (Sept. 2001): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/caplan/09caplan.html

Van de Sompel, Herbert and Beit-Arie, Oren. "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" D-Lib Magazine, vol. 7, no. 3 (Mar. 2001):
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.html

Van de Sompel, Herbert. "Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works: The Bison-Futé Model." D-Lib Magazine, vol. 7, no. 7/8 (July/Aug. 2001): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july01/vandesompel/07vandesompel.html


Persistent URL (PURL):

CONSER BibPURL website: http://bibpurl.oclc.org/

G.P.O. PURL website: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/

OCLC PURL website: http://purl.oclc.org/

PURL FAQs: http://purl.oclc.org/docs/purl_faq.html

Introduction to PURLs: http://purl.oclc.org/docs/inet96.html


More lists, reading, etc.

Background Documentation, Reading Lists and Additional Resources: Persistent
Identifiers (ERPANET): http://www.erpanet.org/php/cork/Background%20Documentation%20Reading%20Lists%20and%20Additional%20Resources.pdf
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