Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
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Corresponding author: Wouter Addink (wouter.addink@naturalis.nl)
Received: 06 Sep 2023 | Published: 07 Sep 2023
© 2023 Wouter Addink, Soulaine Theocharides, Sharif Islam
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Citation:
Addink W, Theocharides S, Islam S (2023) A Novel Part in the Swiss Army Knife for Linking Biodiversity Data: The digital specimen identifier service. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e112283. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112283
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Digital specimens are new information objects on the internet, which act as digital surrogates of the physical objects they represent. They are designed to be extended with data derived from the specimen like genetic, morphological and chemical data, and with data that puts the specimen in context of its gathering event and the environment it was derived from. This requires linking the digital specimens and their related entities to information about agents, locations, publications, taxa and environmental information. To establish reliable links and (re-)connect data to specimens, a new framework is needed, which creates persistent identifiers (PIDs) for the digital specimen and its related entities. These PIDs should be actionable by machines but also can be used by humans for data citation and communication purposes.
The framework that enables this is a new PID infrastructure, produced by the European Commission-funded BiCIKL project (Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library), creates persistent and actionable identifiers. It is a generic PID infrastructure that will be used by the Distributed System for Scientific Collections research infrastructure (DiSSCo), but it can also be used by other infrastructures and institutions. PIDs minted by DiSSCo will be linked to the digital specimens and samples provided through DiSSCo. The new PIDs are a key element in enabling the concept of Digital Extended Specimens (
DiSSCo has done extensive work to select the most appropriate PID scheme (
The design, development and testing of the new PID infrastructure is being done as part of the BiCIKL project that aims to foster collaboration between infrastructures and develop bidirectional connections (
PID, BiCIKL, DiSSCo, DOI
Wouter Addink
TDWG 2023
This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101007492 (BiCIKL project)