Ocean Data Interoperability Platform A short presentation as a discussion starter. How might we implement Persistent Identifiers for the SKOS Concepts in hte NERC Vocabulary Server?

1. DOIs for NVS Controlled Vocabularies?
Adam Leadbetter
adam.leadbetter@marine.ie

2. Why?
• Because Bob asked…
• Gold standard of persistent identifiers is that the resolver
system is separate from the id (Jens Klump’s EGU session)
• Protection against any possible namespace change
• Any change to access protocols can be mitigated
• DOI or handle?

3. What sort of DOI?
A SKOS concept can be viewed as an
idea or notion; a unit of thought.
However, what constitutes a unit of
thought is subjective, and this
definition is meant to be suggestive,
rather than restrictive.

4. What sort of DOI?
SKOS concept collections are labelled
and/or ordered groups of SKOS concepts.
Collections are useful where a group of
concepts shares something in common, and
it is convenient to group them under a
common label, or where some concepts can
be placed in a meaningful order.
A SKOS concept can be viewed as an
idea or notion; a unit of thought.
However, what constitutes a unit of
thought is subjective, and this
definition is meant to be suggestive,
rather than restrictive.

5. What sort of DOI?
An abstract, conceptual, graphical,
mathematical or visualization model that
represents empirical objects, phenomena, or
physical processes.
Modelled descriptions of, for example,
different aspects of languages or a
molecular biology reaction chain.
SKOS concept collections are labelled
and/or ordered groups of SKOS concepts.
Collections are useful where a group of
concepts shares something in common, and
it is convenient to group them under a
common label, or where some concepts can
be placed in a meaningful order.
A SKOS concept can be viewed as an
idea or notion; a unit of thought.
However, what constitutes a unit of
thought is subjective, and this
definition is meant to be suggestive,
rather than restrictive.

6. Things to note
• Metadata updates in the NVS SKOS Concepts don’t change
the philosophical “concept” being described
• No deletion in the NVS – only deprecation
• i.e. The NVS dataset can grow – under a strict interpretation
the dataset doesn’t really change

7. doi:10.5285/vox-p01
Proposal

8. doi:10.5285/vox-p01
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/
Proposal

9. doi:10.5285/vox-p01
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/
doi:10.5285/vox-p01#PSALCU01
Proposal

10. doi:10.5285/vox-p01
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/
doi:10.5285/vox-p01#PSALCU01
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/PSALCU01/
Proposal