Noidman

Noidman is a Ruby on Rails-based web application for creating, managing, validating, and resolving persistent identifiers. It is built around the Archival Resource Key identifier schema and is essentially a web front-end for the Noid (nice opaque identifier) tool released by the California Digital Library. Noidman thus depends upon the Perl-based Noid tool, wrapping its functions in a Ruby facade class, Noid.rb.

Note that I do not intend to continue developing Noidman; the coupling with the Noid tool was too limiting, and so I'm pouring all of my development time into Arkham instead. Still, you may find the Noidman code useful and it's available now.

Browse the source code if you wish.

Availability

You may check the code out freely:

svn checkout http://noidman.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ noidman-read-only  

License

Noidman is released under the MIT/X11 license.

Documentation

You might be interested in installation steps.