The PWID is used for creation and resolving of precise and persistent references to data in web archives. It was invented as there was no proper way of referring precisely and persistently to data in one or more web archives. Further work will be to establish some kind of registry of domains for identification of web archives, as part of the PWID (e.g. via International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)), – another initiative is the creation of a resolver, which currently only exists as a prototype (e.g. to be part of International Internet Preservation Consortium (OPF tools)).
This poster presents the Persistent Web IDentifier (PWID), how it works compared to other approaches and the expected progress of the PWID.
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