Panelists

• Bill Arms (CNRI). Introduction and summary of progress with URNs.
• Keith Shafer (OCLC). A progress report on OCLC's work with persistent URLs (PURLs).
• Joyce Owens (Library of Congress). How LC has used a structured naming system to manage items that are being converted for the National Digital Library program.
• Eliot Christian (USGS). The motivation behind and experience working with the Government Information Locator System (GILS).

Before attending this session, please look briefly at the following papers.

• Overview of the D-Lib Working Group
• Uniform Resource Names, A Progress Report
• The Persistent URL Project (PURL)
• Highlights related to the Government Information Locator Service (GILS)

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Last revised: March 18, 1996