Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), (nd). The Handle System.

http://www.handle.net/index.html
Dack Diana (2001). Persistent Identification Systems (Report on a consultancy for the
National Library of Australia).
http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/persistence/PIcontents.html
International DOI Foundation (nd). The Digital Object Identifier System.
http://www.doi.org/
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), (2001). Uniform Resource Names (URN).
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/urn-charter.html
National Library of Australia (2001). Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access.
http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html
The PURL Team (nd). PURL Persistent URL Homepage. http://purl.oclc.org/
2. Metadata
Metadata standards and initiatives abound in various fields of heritage management,
with extensions or adaptations to accommodate digital materials. For examples, see:
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. http://dublincore.org/
IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme
(UBCIM) (2000). UNIMARC Guidelines no 6: Electronic Resources.
http://ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/guid6.htm
International Council on Archives,(1999). General International Standard Archival
Description, 2nd edition. http://www.ica.org/biblio/cds/isad_g_2e.pdf
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information, (1999). CIMI
Dublin Core Metadata Testbed Project.
http://www.cimi.org/old_site/documents/meta_webliography.html
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, (1998). The
IASA Cataloguing Rules.http://www.iasa-web.org/icat/
Some preservation metadata sources:
Colorado Digitization Project Metadata Workgroup, Audio Taskforce (2002).
Metadata for Digital Audio (draft).
http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/digaudio_meta.pdf
National Library of New Zealand, (2002). Metadata standards framework
preservation metadata. http://www.natlib.govt.nz/files/4initiatives_metaschema.pdf
NISO/AIIM, (2002). Data dictionary technical metadata for digital still images,
released as draft standard for trial NISO Z39.87 2002.
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39_87_trial_use.pdf
Preservation metadata and the OAIS Information Model: a metadata framework to
support the preservation of digital objects: a report by the OCLC/RLG Working
Group on Preservation Metadata, (2002).
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/pm_framework.pdf
Public Record Office (UK) (nd). PRONOM (concerning a database system that stores
and provides information about file formats and the application software needed to
open them.) http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/preservation/digital/pronom.htm
The British Library, (nd). Code of Practice for the Voluntary Deposit of Non-Print

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