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Persistent Identifiers
Wherever possible, GBIF Norway aligns scientific Norwegian data publishers with institutes in:
- ROR - the Research Organization Registry is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.
- GRID - the Global Research Identifier Database is a free and openly available global database of research-related organisations
If a scientific organisation does not have either a ROR or GRID ID, we encourage them to get one. We can determine which department/museum/herbarium is responsible for the data by linking the dataset to a collection in GRSciColl, via collectionID.
When we have datasets which have different institutions, but should be collectively grouped together (e.g. the Nansen Legacy Project datasets), we advise assigning them to a "network", see https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.6/manage-resources#networks. We can also assign a dataset to a network directly in the GBIF Registry https://registry.gbif.org/network/search. The ProjectID field is not the best solution, as it doesn't integrate well with the GBIF search and hosted portals.
For example, the Living Norway Ecological Data Network is adding their datasets to the Living Norway "network" https://registry.gbif.org/network/379a0de5-f377-4661-9a30-33dd844e7b9a https://www.gbif.org/network/379a0de5-f377-4661-9a30-33dd844e7b9a
which are displayed in the Living Norway hosted portal based on this criteria (dataset in network) https://data.livingnorway.no/ https://github.com/gbif/hp-living-norway
We strongly recommend publishing data with populated recordedByID and identifiedByID fields. This will allow us to unambiguously credit and link people to specimens they have collected and identified.
GBIF Norway recommends minting UUIDs as physical collection specimen identifiers of the form urn:uuid:[UUID], and we create machine-resolvable end-point for such identifiers published by Norwegian data publishers through GBIF. Example: http://purl.org/gbifnorway/id/beb50f26-ac81-4b75-8f13-c6570302c68b --> https://resolver.gbif.no/beb50f26-ac81-4b75-8f13-c6570302c68b/
- See also the CETAF identifier guide here.
- DiSSCo provides solutions for minting four types of PID records: Handle records, DOI records, Digital Specimen records, and Botany Specimen records. See the DiSSCo Handle Manager repository on GitHub.