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John A. Kunze from the California Digital Library has released noid (nice opague identifer generator commands), a Perl utility for creating persistent, globally unique names for documents, databases, images, vocabulary terms, etc. Documentation, including a tutorial, is available at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/noid.pdf and the utility itself is available for download at various CPAN locations.