Persistent Identifiers

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 and contextual data

Persistent identifiers, their links to other identifiers and various contextual data are essential components of the DiSSCo architectural design. Here is a brief example to demonstrate the importance of these identifiers, linking them and providing enough contextual information to perform operations on the digital specimen objects. The example here also highlights some of the challengesContinue reading “Identifiers and contextual data”