Workbook on Digital Private Papers > Administrative and preservation metadata > Persistent identifiers
Persistent identifiers
Administering identification
- The repository needs a process to assign identifiers as part of the AIP and DIP creation.
- There must be a procedure in place for updating the locations held for identifiers in the resolver to ensure that identifiers continue to be resolved to the correct location.
- Take-down procedures may be required for instances where a migrated version of an object is no longer the preferred representation. The object and its PID may be retained in the digital archive, but removed from the published repository.
- The repository may need procedures in place to renew subscriptions to relevant services, depending on the methodology selected.
- Responsibility for various aspects of allocating and administering PIDs should be assigned and internal policies produced.
- Comprehensive naming guidelines should be produced to ensure consistency, outlining naming policy, syntax, permitted characters, etc.