Who Uses Persitent Identifiers?
The need for persistent identification for document-like objects has been recognized by a number of organizations and there are several implementations in the public and private sectors, in the United States and in other countries. Within the U.S. Government, for example, the Government Printing Office and the Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information use PURLs and their own installations of the PURL Resolver to manage their connections to the full text of documents. The Defense Technical Information Center uses the Handle System to control the identification and location of digital objects it receives from throughout the DoD. DTIC is a Handle Naming Authority. At the present time, Handles are assigned to DTIC’s full text, publicly-releasable technical reports. Resolvable Handles are displayed on citations in DTIC’s Scientific and Technical Information Networks (Public STINET and Private STINET). In addition, a separate DTIC Central Handle Service Directory
