Category Archives: Innovation & Technology

Why your research career needs a Persistent Identifier

A Persistent Identifier is a kind of number plate that we wear in the web. After all, we use PIDs on a daily basis in our analogue world, such as when we are asked for our identity card number. Only here we are on the web. Fortunately behind a Persistent ID there is an organization that ensures its persistence over time. At this point someone might reply that the address of a website is a persistent ID. Wrong, because behind it there is not always an association to ensure its long-term durability.

A PID is “a code which remains constant as a means of identifying a digital object regardless of changes to its location on the internet”.

 

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Introduction of and to the new central University Library

Foto: Annett Kittner

On October 1, 2020 it will finally happen: The new central University Library will open its doors to the public after a period of reconstruction of more than five years in the building of the “Old Spinning Mill” at Straße der Nationen 33.
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