D-Lib Working Session 3B
"Naming Objects in the Digital Library"
Chair: William Y. Arms, Corporation for National Research
Initiatives
Panelists
- Bill Arms (CNRI). Introduction and summary of progress with URNs.
- Keith Shafer (OCLC). A progress report on OCLC's work with persistent URLs (PURLs).
- Joyce Owens (Library of Congress). How LC has used a structured naming system to manage items that are being converted for the National Digital Library program.
- Eliot Christian (USGS). The motivation behind and experience working with the Government Information Locator System (GILS).
Before attending this session, please look briefly at the following papers.
wya/reb-a
Last revised: March 18, 1996