1. Actionable Identifiers an introduction Joan Starr California Digital Library

2. What?

3. …an actionable (clickable) link

4. Details What you see: alphanumeric string (never changes) Associated with: location of object (such as a URL) Optional: who, what, when, etc (i.e. metadata) By Joelk75: http://www.flickr.com/photos/75001512@N00/2728233597/http://www.flickr.com/photos/75001512@N00/2728233597/

5. Why?

6. How? 6 John Fraissinet https://www.flickr.com/photos/jfraissi/6028451109

7. How? 7 A simple approach currently working for PubMed ids http://n2t.net/pmid:16446403 And many other examples also work, including n2t.net/go:0006915 gene ontology ids n2t.net/ec:3.4.11.4 enzyme class ids n2t.net/geneid:3054987 NCBI Entrez gene db ids n2t.net/taxon:4932 NCBI's taxonomic ids

8. What is n2t? n2t = “name to thing” A resolver service based at California Digital Library Keeps identifiers persistent by forwarding them to their current web addresses Sustained by subscriptions and institutional backing

9. How can you use this option? Free to any participating repository, sponsored by Force 11 http://goo.gl/forms/sDN8ePwTsV www.gotcredit.com https://www.flickr.com/photos/jakerust/16661140289

10. 1.Name of current scheme 2.Base URL 3.Contact email

11. What again? If you have a scheme: XYZ …a base url mapped with n2t and an identifier: 12345.678 you can use this actionable and persistent link in a citation: http://n2t.net/XYZ:12345.678

12. For more info: support-cdl-l@listerv.ucop.edu