Title: NBN:IT The Italian trusted persistent identifier infrastructure

Authors: Emanuele Bellini; Giovanni Bergamin; Maurizio Messina; Chiara Cirinnà; Raffaele Messuti

Addresses: Telematic Applications Lab, PIN – University of Florence, Piazza Giovanni Ciardi 25, Prato Firenze 59100, Italy ' Central National Library of Florence, Piazza dei Cavalleggeri 1, Firenze 50122, Italy ' Marciana National Library, Piazzetta S. Marco, 7, Venezia 30124, Italy ' Telematic Applications Lab, PIN – University of Florence, Piazza Giovanni Ciardi 25, Prato Firenze 59100, Italy ' University of Bologna, Via Zamboni, 33, Bologna 40126, Italy

Abstract: This paper describes how the Italian national bibliography number (NBN) service has become a trusted infrastructure when it has been combined with digital stacks, the national digital preservation infrastructure. A suitable descriptive model, the bricks of trust, to assess the trustworthiness of the PI systems, has been provided. The Italian NBN has been positively assessed according to this model.

Keywords: digital preservation; persistent identifiers; NBN; national bibliography number; digital libraries; cool URI; legal deposit; digital stacks; Italy; trusted infrastructure; trustworthiness.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2014.069536

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2014 Vol.9 No.4, pp.347 - 363

Received: 05 Oct 2013
Accepted: 16 Jun 2014
Published online: 21 May 2015 *

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