Persistent Identification

Function definition: Tools that support the unique and persistent identification of files or intellectual entities.

Lifecycle stage: Ingest,Store

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
ARK plugin for Omeka	Generating and resolving ARK identifiers for resources in Omeka
Ark service	ARK identifiers generator in python
AudiAnnotate	To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects.
DataCite	DataCite works with data centres to assign persistent identifiers to datasets using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) infrastructure.
EZARK	ARK identifiers management tool and sub-publishers registry
EZID	EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create and manage unique, persistent identifiers.
Greens	ARK identifiers minter and resolver
NOID (Ruby)	A version of NOID in Ruby
Nice Opaque Identifiers (NOID)	Identifiers management tool to generate, bind and resolve different kinds of identifiers
Noids	Identifiers management tool
Omeka Identity plugin	Plugin for Omeka to assign ARK identifiers
UKWA Access API	Web archives access API
WebCite	WebCite is an on-demand web archiving service that takes snapshots of Internet-accessible digital objects at the behest of users, storing the data on their own servers and assigning unique identifiers to those instances of the material.