[tdwg-content] InstitutionCode - InstitutionID

[Matt Jones]

John et al.,

You might be interested in a special issue of the NISO newsletter that
reviews various efforts towards organization and people identifiers,
including such standards efforts as ISNI and ORCD.

http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2011/v23no3/

Matt

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:44 PM, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi Aaike,
>
> The institutionID is definitely meant to be a GUID, and as such would
> not likely be of much use within an institutional database, where the
> institutionID would likely be the same for every record. Instead, it
> is meant to identify an institution in a persistent, hopefully
> resolvable way, where resolution would be able to give more
> information about the identified institution.
>
> Identifiers for institutions do exist. An example is
> urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34777, the institutionID in the Biodiversity
> Collections Index for the University of California Berkeley Museum of
> Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), within which there are several collections,
> each with its distinct collectionID, such as
> urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34818 for the Herpetology Collection at the
> MVZ.
>
> The IDs are useful to provide the possibility of a link to other
> information that may not be shared in original record. They are also
> useful to distinguish the institutions and collections from each
> other. For example, MVZ is the acronym used for the Institution as a
> whole where the collections are housed, and it is also used
> independently by each of the collections when specimens are cited in
> literature. In other words, the institutionCode (MVZ) is not distinct
> from the collectionCodes (MVZ), and the collectionCodes within the
> institution are not unique (all MVZ). The IDs are meant to overcome
> this and other problems of reference and uniqueness.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Aaike De Wever
> <aaike.dewever at naturalsciences.be> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > While composing a template and recommendations for the Darwin Core fields
> > to supply for the BioFresh project
> > <http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/>, similar to what Peter Desmet
> did
> > for herbaria in Apple Core <http://code.google.com/p/applecore/>, I came
> > across a number of terms which I haven't yet completely understood and
> > hope to get some feedback on from this community.
> >
> > Two of these terms are:
> >
> > InstitutionCode - InstitutionID
> > http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/institutionCode -
> > http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/institutionID
> >
> > The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the
> > object(s) or information referred to in the record. / An identifier for
> > the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred
> to
> > in the record.
> >
> > I guess that the latter term is supposed to be a DOI/GUID for the
> > institute, but am wondering if there is such a thing or whether this
> field
> > is rather for internal database purposes?
> >
> > Any advise would be appreciated!
> >
> > With best regards,
> > --
> > Aaike De Wever
> > BioFresh Science Officer
> > Freshwater Laboratory, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
> > Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels
> > Belgium
> > tel.: +32(0)2 627 43 90
> > mobile.: +32(0)486 28 05 93
> > email: <aaike.dewever at naturalsciences.be>
> > skype: aaikew
> > AIM: aaike at mac.com
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> > BioFresh: <http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/> and
> > <http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/>
> > Belgian Biodiversity Platform: <http://www.biodiversity.be>
> >
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