A repository to faciliatate the conversation around persistent identification of Digital Extended Specimens and other natural science collections data entities.

Background

1. Hardisty, A.R., Addink, W., Glöckler, F., Güntsch, A., Islam, S. and Weiland, C., 2021. A choice of persistent identifier schemes for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo). Research Ideas and Outcomes 7,e67379 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e67379
2. Alex R Hardisty, Elizabeth R Ellwood, Gil Nelson, Breda Zimkus, Jutta Buschbom, Wouter Addink, Richard K Rabeler, John Bates, Andrew Bentley, José A B Fortes, Sara Hansen, James A Macklin, Austin R Mast, Joseph T Miller, Anna K Monfils, Deborah L Paul, Elycia Wallis, Michael Webster, Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet, BioScience, 2022;, biac060, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac060
3. Mabry, M.E., Zapata, F., Paul, D.L., O'Connor, P.M., Soltis, P.S., Blackburn, D.C. and Simmons, N.B., 2022. Monographs as a nexus for building extended specimen networks using persistent identifiers. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 1(1).
4. Madden, F. and Woodburn, M., 2021. Persistent Identifiers at the Natural History Museum. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22020/k99s-we61

How to contribute

Please submit questions, requests, use cases, user stories as github issues -- provide relevant details, use case, pain points. For user stories, please use the common user story format ("As a [Persona].."). Also check existing user stories from DiSSCo.