Another GUID system

[Roderic Page]

Another GUID system that might be of interest is ARK
(http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/). The site describing this
approach has a nice discussion of the issues surrounding persistent
identifiers, and various solutions such as DOIs and URNs (of which
LSIDs are an example). I think this system should be looked at closely,
before we limit discussion to DOIs or LSIDs.

Regards

Rod

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