Wouter Addink

Getting Started with Digital Specimen DOIs: Unlocking the Power of Persistent, Citable Data

In biodiversity and environmental sciences, access to trusted, persistent, and citable data is key to accelerating research and discovery. That’s where Digital Specimen DOIs come in—a foundational tool for connecting your research to verifiable specimen data. Darwin Core supports them through a new term called “digitalSpecimenID” and Pensoft supports them in their ARPHA journal system.Continue reading “Getting Started with Digital Specimen DOIs: Unlocking the Power of Persistent, Citable Data”

Identifiers for our institutes – GRID and ROR

DiSSCo aims to describe relationships between specimen and e.g. the collections in which they are curated, the collection holding institute, contributors, contributions, funders and scholarly publications. All these objects need to be uniquely identified to be able to connect their information. To show the importance of connecting specimen with their institutes we can look atContinue reading “Identifiers for our institutes – GRID and ROR”