Handle

• Name: Handle
• Alternative Name: HNDL
• Specification URI: https://www.handle.net/
• Scope: Publication, Citation, Conference, Person, Organization, Dataset, DataRepository, Grants, Project, Experiment, Investigation, Analysis, Software, Computer Simulation, Software License, Equipment, Sample
• Disciplines: Subject Agnostic
• Keywords: identifier standard
• Description: The Handle System is the Corporation for National Research Initiatives's proprietary registry assigning persistent identifiers, or handles, to information resources, and for resolving "those handles into the information necessary to locate, access, and otherwise make use of the resources".