Title
Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects.
Abstract
With biodiversity research activities being increasingly shifted to the web, the need for a system of persistent and stable identifiers for physical collection objects becomes increasingly pressing. The Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities agreed on a common system of HTTP-URI-based stable identifiers which is now rolled out to its member organizations. The system follows Linked Open Data principles and implements redirection mechanisms to human-readable and machine-readable representations of specimens facilitating seamless integration into the growing semantic web. The implementation of stable identifiers across collection organizations is supported with open source provider software scripts, best practices documentations and recommendations for RDF metadata elements facilitating harmonized access to collection information in web portals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1093/database/bax003
DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
Field
DocType
Volume
World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Identifier,Computer science,Semantic Web,Software,Bioinformatics
Journal
2017
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1758-0463
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
2
18