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Handle System

The Handle System is a proprietary registry assigning persistent identifiers, or handles, to information resources, and for resolving "those handles into the information necessary to locate, access, and otherwise make use of the resources". As with handles used elsewhere in computing, Handle System identifiers, a.k.a. Handle IDs, are opaque, and encode…

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Handle System

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples56
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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Handle System

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has application · 12
Handle System → Although, Among, As, GRID, HANDLE, Handles, Its, NET, Persistent, See Paradigm, They, URL
related to Licences and use policy · 12
Handle System → CNRI, Corporation, Global Handle Registry, HANDLE, International DOI Foundation, National Research Initiatives, NET, Service Agreement, The, The Handle System, The Public License, US
related to Implementation · 10
Handle System → Adobe Acrobat, Firefox, HANDLE, Implementation, Local Handle Service, Local Handle Services, NET Client Libraries, NET Software, The Global Handle Registry, The Handle System
related to Specifications · 9
Handle System → CNRI, Documentation, Handles, IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force, RFCs, Similar, The Handle System, Two
related to Related technologies · 5
Handle System → CNRI, Digital Object Repository, In January, More, The Handle System
is a · 2
Handle System → proprietary registry assigning persistent identifiers, subject of patents by CNRI
related to Design principles · 2
Handle System → The, The Handle

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handle system handles digital information object cnri may resource doi used metadata services identifiers global registry use also local applications

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Handle Systemis aproprietary registry assigning persistent identifiers0.90text
Handle Systemis asubject of patents by CNRI0.90text
the name of a file in the server file system containing the resourceinstance ofand perhaps even location specifics0.80text
PURLs or ARKsinstance ofunlike persistent identifiers0.80text
which are similar to handlesinstance ofunlike persistent identifiers0.80text
but which utilise domain namesinstance ofunlike persistent identifiers0.80text
Handle Systemhas applicationAmong0.60section
Handle Systemhas applicationHandles0.60section
Handle Systemhas applicationGRID0.60section
Handle Systemhas applicationAlthough0.60section
Handle Systemhas applicationHANDLE0.60section
Handle Systemhas applicationNET0.60section

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