URN

Draft

• Uniform Resource Names (URNs) are intended to serve as persistent, location-independent, resource identifiers.

• URNs have been formalized in the RFC 2141 and are also addressed in the RFC 3986 URI Syntax specification.

Today, most popular URNs are probably DOIs

urn:issn:1082-9873
urn:doi:10.1000/1

Links

• DOI HomePage

References

Standards

• RFC2141 URN Syntax

Related standards

• RFC 3986 URI Syntax
• RFC 1738 - URL Syntax
• RFC 2288 - Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names

Introductory articles

• Dan Connolly (2005). Untangle URIs, URLs, and URNs, Naming and the problem of persistence, IBM developerWorks article, HTML