Synthesys: CETAF Stable Identifiers (RBGE, 2017) from unique identifiers in access Watch Video
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Description: CETAF stable identifiers make it possible for us to click on a link and gain access to a specimen in a natural history collection. This is a unique addressing system that we can use to refer to particular specimens anywhere in the world. These unique identifiers are just basic web URIs (uniform resource identifiers) - web addresses. What we've added is institutional commitment to maintain them as persistent identifiers. So we have 1 unique link for each specimen within a collection, and the inst
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