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CETAF Stable Identifiers (CSI)

To make the biodiversity data within CETAF’s natural history collections retrievable, connected and interoperable, ‘stable identifiers’ must be determined. The formation of a joint system of identifiers for specimens held by CETAF collections is one of the key targets defined by CETAF’s strategic development plan for 2015-2025. Stable identifiers are globally unique, consistent and reliable identifiers for specimens, used online to redirect users and systems to images, websites and metadata about the physical objects and to integrate them with the semantic web.

The CETAF Information Science and Technology Committee has taken already a significant step to fulfil this target by agreeing on a joint Linked Open Data (LOD) compliant identifier system that:

• provides mechanisms for consistently referencing individual specimens; and

• redirects to human-readable webpages and machine-readable metadata records.

Read more on the CETAF Stable Identifier Initiative Wiki

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Stable Identifiers Implementers Group

To date, 14 CETAF institutions have joined the initiative and provide LOD-compliant identifiers for individual specimens. For each of them, the following lists provide an example identifier, a link to a catalogue for searching specimens and their identifiers as well as an indication of whether a redirect to machine-readable metadata has already been implemented.

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin

Example: http://herbarium.bgbm.org/object/B100277113

Catalogue: http://ww2.bgbm.org/Herbarium/

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki

Example: http://id.luomus.fi/GL.749

Catalogue: no

Redirect to machine-readable representation: no

Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

Example: http://ibot.sav.sk/herbarium/object/SAV0001234

Catalogue: http://ibot.sav.sk/herbarium

Redirect to machine-readable representation: no (no redirection by passing rdf header, but rdf is accessible at http://ibot.sav.sk/herbarium/data/SAV0001234.rdf)

Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

Example: http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/ZMB_Orth_BA000061S01

Catalogue: no

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris

Example: http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/ec/ec32

Catalogue: https://science.mnhn.fr/all/search

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden

Example: http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.AVES.110103

Catalogue: http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Natural History Museum, London

Example: http://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/a9bdc16d-c9ba-4e32-9311-d5250af2b5ac

Catalogue: http://data.nhm.ac.uk/

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Natural History Museum - University of Oslo

Example: http://purl.org/nhmuio/id/41d9cbb4-4590-4265-8079-ca44d46d27c3

Catalogue: http://nhmo-birds.collectionexplorer.org/

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Example: data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00421509

Catalogue: http://elmer.rbge.org.uk/bgbase/vherb/bgbasevherb.php

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

Example: http://col.smns-bw.org/object/S10000227722006

Catalogue: http://www.smns-bw.org/db/datenbank.php

Redirect to machine-readable representation: no

Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns

Example: http://id.snsb.info/snsb/collection/97112/153455/93009

Catalogue: https://www.snsb.info/dwb_biocase.html

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn

Example: http://id.zfmk.de/collection_ZFMK/2003261

Catalogue: https://www.collections.zfmk.de/

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes (http://herbal.rbge.info/?uri=https://id.zfmk.de/collection_ZFMK/2003261)

Botanic Garden Meise

Example: http://www.botanicalcollections.be/specimen/BR0000008422330

Catalogue: http://www.botanicalcollections.be/#/en/home

Redirect to machine-readable representation: yes

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Example: http://darwinweb.africamuseum.be/object/RMCA_Vert_2011.003.P.1885-1898

Catalogue: http://darwinweb.africamuseum.be/search_specimens

Redirect to machine-readable representation: no