PID Statistics Project

In the PID database, the URL of the data object, such as PDF, video or data set, is stored. This is basically considered a service. A handle software is run to allow us to create these database entries to generate prefixes and suffixes. This process is carried out for many customers in ePIC (Persistent Identifier Consortium for eResearch), where they cooperate for handle servers. What is currently needed is a service on top of handle servers that provides a descriptive overview. An important issue here is that it isn’t sufficient to create PID prefixes and PIDs themselves. It should be easily understandable to the users how many prefixes are created and how many PIDs are in those prefixes. (This project work report was conducted in preparation for the Master thesis and was supervised by Dr. Sven Bingert and Triet Doan)