Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects

作者：Guentsch Anton; Hyam Roger; Hagedorn Gregor; Chagnoux Simon; Roepert Dominik; Casino Ana; Droege Gabi; Gloeckler Falko; Godderz Karsten; Groom Quentin; Hoffmann Jana; Holleman Ayco; Kempa Matus; Koivula Hanna; Marhold Karol; Nicolson Nicky; Smith Vincent S; Triebel Dagmar

来源：Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2017, 2017: bax003.

DOI：10.1093/database/bax003

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.

• 出版日期2017-2-26