Table 5. Identifiers throughout the data life cycle.
| Name | Relevant stage of
data life cycle |
Description | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | Publishing, Sharing,
Finding |
A unique identifier for a digital (or physical or
abstract) object |
https://www.doi.org/ |
| Open Researcher and
Contributor ID (ORCID) |
Publishing | An identifier for a specific researcher that
persists across publications and other research outputs |
https://orcid.org/ |
| Repository accession
number |
Finding, Processing/
Analyzing, Publishing, Sharing, Storing |
A unique identifier for a record within a
repository. Format will be repository-specific. Examples include NIH UIDs (unique identifiers) and accession numbers; ENA accession numbers; PDB IDs |
For example,
https://support.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/link/portal/28045/28049/
Article/499/ http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/submit/accession-number-formats |
| Pubmed ID (PMID) | Publishing | An example of a repository-specific unique
identifier: PubMed IDs are used for research publications indexed in the PubMed database |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ |
| International Standard
Serial Number (ISSN) |
Publishing | A unique identifier for a journal, magazine or
periodical |
http://www.issn.org/ |
| International Standard Book
Number (ISBN) |
Publishing | A unique identifier for a book, specific to the
title, edition and format |
https://www.isbn-international.org |