The trouble with triplets in biodiversity informatics: a data-driven case against current identifier practices.

ABSTRACT: The biodiversity informatics community has discussed aspirations and approaches for assigning globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) to biocollections for nearly a decade. During that time, and despite misgivings, the de facto standard identifier has become the "Darwin Core Triplet", which is a concatenation of values for institution code, collection code, and catalog number associated with biocollections material. Our aim is not to rehash the challenging discussions regarding which GUID system in theory best supports the biodiversity informatics use case of discovering and linking digital data across the Internet, but how well we can link those data together at this moment, utilizing the current identifier schemes that have already been deployed. We gathered Darwin Core Triplets from a subse

SUBMITTER: Guralnick R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254916 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature