Handle System identifier (handle)

ID handle_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Persistent identifier in the Handle System, written as <prefix>/<suffix>. The prefix names a naming authority and may have several levels separated by dots, such as 20.1000 or 20.500.11794. The suffix is the local name assigned by that authority. DOIs are handles with prefix 10. The regexp matches handles with a dotted prefix; older handles with a single numeric prefix such as 2381/12345 cannot be told apart from other slash-separated values by their form.

Categories: Objects identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Bioregistry: hdl
Wikidata: P1184
Quality: 85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^\d+(?:\.\d+)+/\S+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
20.1000/100	Handle of the HANDLE.NET software license
20.500.11794/34239	Item in the repository of Université Laval
12/25/2020 invalid	A date

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1184

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