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".
O Handle System é o rexistro propietario de Corporation for National Research Initiatives que atribúe identificadores persistentes ou manexa os recursos de información para resolver "eses controladores na información necesaria para localizar, acceder e utilizar os recursos".