PILIN Welcome
“Strengthening Australia's ability to use global identifier infrastructure”
PILIN Project aims to:
Develop an abstract model for identifiers and their management
Develop shared, standards-based, persistent identifier management infrastructure
Support adoption of persistent identifiers and services
Plan for sustainable shared identifier infrastructure
Supporting adoption through
“proof of concept” deployment and demonstrator services
documenting best practice
The PILIN project has been successfully completed and the final report can be found at http://www.pilin.net.au/Closure_Report.pdf. For subsequent work on Persistent Identifiers by the Link Affiliates team, see http://linkaffiliates.net.au/pilin2/ . There are ongoing discussions on establishing a National Persistent Identifier Service, and the Australian National Data Service has launched an Identify My Data service for Australian researchers. |
The PILIN project is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, (DEST) under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability – An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA) under the ARROW Project.

