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What is a persistent identifier?
What is name resolution?What is name resolution?
Why use persistent identifiers?
What resources should be named?
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Location-independent means that the identifier itself does not specify the location of the resource. In order to access a resource its persistent identifier has to be resolved into a location-specific identifier such as a URL.
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What is name resolution?
Name resolution is the process of mapping a persistent identifier (PID) to a URL that retrieves the named resource; the URL locates the resource identified by the persistent identifier:
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