PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS:WHAT IF?

11/19 – Interoperable

"To enable the greatest number of users to share and use cultural contents, interoperability among different PID systems must be achieved mainly through the adoption of open standards."
Interoperable
This is vital to ensuring that cultural content can be shared and used by as a large a set of users as possible.
Many PID solutions were designed for specific domains.

Therefore:
Organisations should use intellectually openstandards for the implementation of PIDs. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs): recommendations for institutions (PDF) by Gordon McKenna and Roxanne Wyns.