3. Current activities at Die Deutsche Bibliothek

The positive response, and acceptance by the university libraries in respect to the application of URNs, and the increasing interest in the implementation of persistent identifiers led to the initiation of the new project „Enhancement of Persistent Identifier Services - Comprehensive Method for unequivocal Resource Identification", (EPICUR, 2002 - 2004). This new project will be conducted at Die Deutsche Bibliothek and is funded by the German Ministry for Research and Technology.

The main objectives of the EPICUR project are the expansion of the existing URN management to other document classes e.g. publisher publications and the migration of the existing service to a productive and enhanced system environment. Furthermore a complementary application of URNs and DOIs are considered.

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