On the utility of identification schemes for digital earth science data: An assessment and recommendations

Earth Science Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 139-160

  Duerr, Ruth E ^a   Downs, Robert R ^b   Tilmes, Curt ^c   Barkstrom, Bruce ^f   Lenhardt, W Christopher ^g   Glassy, Joseph ^h   Bermudez, Luis E ^d   Slaughter, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Open Geospatial Consortium   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NASA/NOAA   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Lupine Logic Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital identifiers; Global unique persistent identifiers; Permanent identifiers; Unique Identifiers

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DIGITIZATION; EARTH SCIENCE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 80052806068     PISSN: 18650473     EISSN: 18650481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-011-0083-6     Document Type: Review

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