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

Journal: Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Published Date: Jan 1, 2017

Abstract

UNLABELLED: 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.

Authors

  • Anton Güntsch
    Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Roger Hyam
    Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Gregor Hagedorn
    Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany.
  • Simon Chagnoux
    Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, Paris, France.
  • Dominik Röpert
    Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Ana Casino
    CETAF-Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Gabi Droege
    Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Falko Glöckler
    Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany.
  • Karsten Gödderz
    CETAF-Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Quentin Groom
    Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, Meise, 1860, Belgium.
  • Jana Hoffmann
    Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany.
  • Ayco Holleman
    Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Matúš Kempa
    Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • Hanna Koivula
    Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Karol Marhold
    Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • Nicky Nicolson
    Biodiversity Informatics & Spatial Analysis, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK.
  • Vincent S Smith
    Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, UK.
  • Dagmar Triebel
    SNSB IT Center, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, München, Germany.

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