Going Digital: Persistent Identifiers for Research Samples, Resources and Instruments
The uptake of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) has increased in recent years and has improved the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR) of various research related objects (e.g., data, software, researchers and research ...
Esther Plomp
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20 Years of Persistent Identifiers – Which Systems are Here to Stay?
Web-based persistent identifiers have been around for more than 20 years, a period long enough for us to start observing patterns of success and failure.
Jens Klump, Robert Huber
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String of PURLs – frugal migration and maintenance of persistent identifiers
FAIR data requires unique and persistent identifiers. Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs) are one common solution, introducing a mapping layer from the permanent identifier to a target URL that can change over time.
James A. Overton +2 more
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Editorial: 20 Years of Persistent Identifiers – Applications and Future Directions
Persistent identifiers (PID) have existed for more than 20 years and have become well established as a means for identifying literature and data on the web. They were invented to address the problem of disappearing internet links, also known as “link rot”
Jens Klump +3 more
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On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web [PDF]
Scholarly resources, just like any other resources on the web, are subject to reference rot as they frequently disappear or significantly change over time. Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are commonplace to persistently identify scholarly resources and
Martin Klein, Lyudmila Balakireva
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Persistent Identifiers and the Next Generation of Legal Scholarship
The world of scholarly communications has seen distinct growth regarding the use of persistent identifiers in the effort to preserve, disseminate, analyze, and help locate academic content.
Aaron Retteen, Malikah Hall
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Persistent identifiers: the building blocks of the research information infrastructure
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) – for people (researchers), places (their organizations) and things (their research outputs and other contributions) – are foundational elements in the overall research information infrastructure.
Alice Meadows +2 more
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Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys [PDF]
The paper describes the focus, scope and the rationale of PhytoKeys, a newly established, peer-reviewed, open-access journal in plant systematics.
Lyubomir Penev +4 more
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Actionable Persistent Identifier Collections
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) have lately received a lot of attention from scientific infrastructure projects and communities that aim to employ them for management of massive amounts of research data and metadata objects.
Tobias Weigel +2 more
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PIDapalooza – the open festival for persistent identifiers
In 2016 three persistent identifier (PID) organizations – Crossref, DataCite and ORCID – together with California Digital Library organized PIDapalooza, the first open festival for PIDs.
Alice Meadows
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