Interoperability knowledge base for persistent identifiers interoperability framework

In this paper, we propose a semantic web based solution to implement the Interoperability Framework (IF) for Persistent Identifiers (PI) developed within the context of APARSEN EU project. The IF provides a comprehensive, semantics-aware solution for interoperability of heterogeneous Persistent Identifier systems. Such a solution aims to provide added-value services built on an Interoperability Knowledge Base. The IF ontology refinement and the related prototype specifics have been designed adopting a bottom-up approach that starts from a)the analysis of metadata provided by Content Providers and b)the collection of functional and semantic requirements of Persistent Identifier Domains (PID to fostering ontologybased metadata translation among different bodies. Conclusions and intended future work close the paper