2017/01/01 by Anton Güntsch, Roger Hyam, Gregor Hagedorn +15 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Computer Science · Environmental Science · #Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies #Research Data Management Practices #Species Distribution and Climate Change
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/database/bax003
openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
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. Database URL: : http://cetaf.org/cetaf-stable-identifiers.