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The DAI contains 9 characters. The first 8 characters are numbers. The 9th character is a control character.

Notewarning

how is this control character calculated? Can anyone explain the algorithm used?

at the moment the info namespace is used as an authority namespace.

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titlehow How does a DAI look like

info:eu-repo/dai/nl/12345678X

The DAI is the number after info:eu-repo/dai/nl/ .
info:eu-repo/dai/nl/ is just an authority namespace, telling the user or machine that the number is a DAI originating from the Netherlands.
Click here to read more about info:eu-repo/dai/nl/

Notewarning

How can we fit the DAI in to the ISNI? It is said it can be done by OCLC. But how? The ISNI is a 16-digit number. Does this subset of dutch authors get a prefix? What about the last control number?

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