Community Next Steps for Making Globally Unique Identifiers Work for Biocollections Data
Community Next Steps for Making Globally Unique Identifiers Work for Biocollections Data
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DOI：
10.3897/zookeys.494.9352
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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1.3
通讯作者：
Page, Roderic D. M.
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作者：
Guralnick, Robert P.;Cellinese, Nico;Page, Roderic D. M.
生物多样性数据正在迅速数字化并在线提供，但目前的做法通常不保留这些数据之间的联系，这阻碍了互操作，来源跟踪和更大数据集的组装。对于与生物收集有关的数据，生物多样性界早就认识到，建立和维护联系的一个重要部分是在实地产生数据时采用全球唯一的标识符，并将这些标识符保存到下游，但实际上很少这样做。既没有形成一个单一的标识符解决方案（如在其他一些领域），甚至也没有一套建议的最佳做法和标准来支持共享一致响应的多个标识符方案。为了进一步取得更广泛的社区共识，一组生物收藏和信息学专家于2014年10月聚集在斯德哥尔摩，讨论社区克服当前障碍的下一步措施。研讨会与会者分为四个小组，重点讨论：当前实地生物采集的标识符做法;遗产生物采集的标识符应用;生物多样性数据记录出版和在语义标记的出版物中提供时应用的标识符;以及跨越这些领域的跨领域标识符解决方案。主要成果是就关键问题达成共识，包括认识到传统和新的生物收集过程之间的差异，需要有标识符元数据档案，以报告标识符持久性任务的信息，以及明确表明与标识符有关的物体类型。目前的标识符的特点也进行了总结，并提供了一个可用的计划和做法的概述。
Biodiversity data is being digitized and made available online at a rapidly increasing rate but current practices typically do not preserve linkages between these data, which impedes interoperation, provenance tracking, and assembly of larger datasets. For data associated with biocollections, the biodiversity community has long recognized that an essential part of establishing and preserving linkages is to apply globally unique identifiers at the point when data are generated in the field and to persist these identifiers downstream, but this is seldom implemented in practice. There has neither been coalescence towards one single identifier solution (as in some other domains), nor even a set of recommended best practices and standards to support multiple identifier schemes sharing consistent responses. In order to further progress towards a broader community consensus, a group of biocollections and informatics experts assembled in Stockholm in October 2014 to discuss community next steps to overcome current roadblocks. The workshop participants divided into four groups focusing on: identifier practice in current field biocollections; identifier application for legacy biocollections; identifiers as applied to biodiversity data records as they are published and made available in semantically marked-up publications; and cross-cutting identifier solutions that bridge across these domains. The main outcome was consensus on key issues, including recognition of differences between legacy and new biocollections processes, the need for identifier metadata profiles that can report information on identifier persistence missions, and the unambiguous indication of the type of object associated with the identifier. Current identifier characteristics are also summarized, and an overview of available schemes and practices is provided.