Identifiers Not Only…But Also… Leigh Dodds Chief Technology Officer, Ingenta UKSG Conference, Torquay, April 2008

The Web has Dark Matter

“ This is an age of naming , it is an of age of pointing at things” -- Tom Coates

Identifying Objects of Collective Interest

Why Is This Important?

Externalizing Services

Externalizing Services

Externalizing Identifiers Business A Business B Business C

Externalizing Identifiers Business Community

Externalizing Identifiers

Global Identifiers

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URN Uniform Resource Name (Not This Kind!)

URL Uniform Resource Locator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torquay

Other Properties of Global Identifiers

Community Support

Open and Shareable

Multiple identifiers will remain commonplace

Publishing Identifiers

doi:10.1629/214

http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/214

LCCN 38032738 http://lccn.loc.gov/38032738

ISBN 0-486-45006-6

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0486450066

ISAN ISPI ISTC Author & Institutional Identifiers

The Future

Questions?

Photo Attributions (1) Gaetan Lee http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/133351781/ Tillwe http://www.flickr.com/photos/tillwe/603936954/ Tiarrescott http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiarescott/250678795/ Project 404 http://www.flickr.com/photos/project-404/130008005 TheatricAL 03 http://www.flickr.com/photos/theatrical03/2374336183/ Bekathwia http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2170338717/ Gab!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/gazoing/99990637 Lumaxart http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/2137729430/

Gaetan Lee

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/133351781/

Tillwe

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tillwe/603936954/

Tiarrescott

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiarescott/250678795/

Project 404

http://www.flickr.com/photos/project-404/130008005

TheatricAL 03

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theatrical03/2374336183/

Bekathwia

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2170338717/

Gab!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gazoing/99990637

Lumaxart

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/2137729430/

Photo Attributions (2) Mykl Roventine http://www. flickr .com/photos/ myklroventine /557237891/ Drew073 http://www. flickr .com/photos/ drewmunro /416432175 Chris Owens http://www. flickr .com/photos/shutter/105497713/ Maveric2003 http://www. flickr .com/photos/maveric2003/91198458 Ambimb http://www. flickr .com/photos/ ambimb /2320642182 Hamed Masoumi http://www. flickr .com/photos/ hamedmasoumi /1970466016/ Psd http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/2086641/

Mykl Roventine

http://www. flickr .com/photos/ myklroventine /557237891/

Drew073

http://www. flickr .com/photos/ drewmunro /416432175

Chris Owens

http://www. flickr .com/photos/shutter/105497713/

Maveric2003

http://www. flickr .com/photos/maveric2003/91198458

Ambimb

http://www. flickr .com/photos/ ambimb /2320642182

Hamed Masoumi

http://www. flickr .com/photos/ hamedmasoumi /1970466016/

Psd

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/2086641/