What can we learn from the Internet? Webinar domani alle 16 con Bob Kahn

More background

In 1995, Bob Kahn, together with Robert Wilensky, wrote a visionary paper on Digital Objects which led to the Digital Object architecture, and the world-wide increased adoption of the Digital Objects concept and their associated Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). Consequently, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), the institute at which Bob is director, started working on a solid and powerful PID resolution system which is now the basis of the services behind DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) and many other services for the registration and resolution of PIDs, such as ePIC (European Persistent Identifier Consortium) in Europe.

Bob Kahn's commitment lead to the creation of  the DONA Foundation, the non-profit foundation in Geneva that now provides the overall administration, maintenance, and coordination of the registration and resolution services under the Global Handle Registry (GHR), with the role to administer, manage, provide and coordinate the registration and resolution of identifiers for information in digital objects.