Actionable Identifiers an introduction Joan Starr California Digital Library
What?
…an actionable (clickable) link
Details What you see: alphanumeric string (never changes) Associated with: location of object (such as a URL) Optional: who, what, when, etc (i.e. metadata) By Joelk75:
Why?
How? 6 John Fraissinet
How? 7 A simple approach currently working for PubMed ids And many other examples also work, including n2t.net/go: gene ontology ids n2t.net/ec: enzyme class ids n2t.net/geneid: NCBI Entrez gene db ids n2t.net/taxon:4932 NCBI's taxonomic ids
What is n2t? n2t = “name to thing” A resolver service based at California Digital Library Keeps identifiers persistent by forwarding them to their current web addresses Sustained by subscriptions and institutional backing
How can you use this option? Free to any participating repository, sponsored by Force
1.Name of current scheme 2.Base URL 3.Contact
What again? If you have a scheme: XYZ …a base url mapped with n2t and an identifier: you can use this actionable and persistent link in a citation:
For more info: