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Status Report: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) at the Montana State Library Jim Kammerer Best Practices Exchange, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 2:55-3:55 p.m. 11.02.2018 Current repository at Internet Archive PURL Server Client

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Status Report: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) at the Montana State Library Jim Kammerer • Best Practices Exchange, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 2:55-3:55 p.m. 11.02.2018

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Client Yet-to-be-created- local repository Current repository at Internet Archive PURL Server

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Current status of persistent identifiers at Montana State Library:

2009-12-28 Date of the first created PURL at MSL.
2015-08-19 Date of the last PURL created at MSL.
7,759 Total number of PURLs created by MSL.
26,443 Total number of items at Internet Archive.

Issues:

Inability to create new PURLs using the same prefix.
Minimal PURL service support.
Staff turnover. Missing documentation.
Cursory research indicates modest rate of adoption by institutional repositories
worldwide. Also, DNS name system controlled by outside organizations.

PURLs.

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Questions:

Your opinion of our current situation with PURLs.
How do you provide assurance of long term access to your digital objects?
What are your ideas/experiences with persistent identifiers?
Are you using persistent identifiers? Why or why not? Which ones?
Do you really need them?