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As the exciting work that many of us have been engaged in for the past 10 - 20 years, to digitze our collections and thereby make them more accessible, grows in support, complexity and achievement, I wish to offer a warning and a comment.</div>
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I believe the term "digital twin" should be avoided and replaced by "digital proxy", "digital surrogate" or just "digital specimen". The word twin implies that the digital specimen is absolutely identical to the physical specimen, which it is clearly not. The
physical specimen can subjected to new forms of physical analysis and at greater resolutions, in a way that a digital surrogate cannot. Also, the cynic in me knows that before long, a hard pressed administrator will argue that if we have the digital twin we
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I am also concerned with the use of the term PID - persistent identifiers. Collections have been using persistent identifiers - unique registration numbers - for over two hundred years (and the British Geological Survey since 1849). Actionable or executable
persistent identifiers are a vital tool for linking to objects, but are a very much newer concept. It seems disingenuous of data scientists not to acknowledge two centuries of good practice (and all the hard work of curators and registrars) and instead use
an acronym such as EPID or APID?</div>
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Any thoughts?</div>
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Thanks,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 21 January 2021 16:09<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu <nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Consultation on Converging Digital and Extended Specimens: Towards a global specification for data integration</font>
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<span style="color:black">Over the past year several exciting conversations about the possibilities of digital representations of the billions of specimens currently held in the world’s natural history collections. Two concepts—the
</span><a href="https://dissco.tech/2020/03/31/what-is-a-digital-specimen/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#F15A29; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Digital Specimen</span></a><span style="color:black"> proposed by the
</span><a href="https://www.dissco.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#F15A29; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Distributed System of Scientific Collections</span></a><span style="color:black"> (DiSSCo) in Europe and the
</span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/BCoN/Extending-Biodiversity-Collections-Full-Report%282%29.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#F15A29; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Extended Specimen</span></a><span style="color:black">
emerging from the </span><a href="https://bcon.aibs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#F15A29; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Biological Collections Network</span></a><span style="color:black"> (BCoN) in the United States—are now aligning
towards a shared vision that connects all information related to a specimen, creating in effect “digital twins” for the materials held in scientific collections.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Plans for the <i><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.allianceforbio.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C251ac4fbf1e94c6d60d908d8be228dcc%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637468402904646152%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3dLwhI%2BXQ93%2FyrhWjARxMOBv%2FZt7nroQCX5pNYfrKBE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:#954F72">alliance</span><span style="color:#954F72; font-style:normal"> </span></a></i>consultation
on <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.allianceforbio.org%2Fpost%2Fconverging-digital-and-extended-specimens-towards-a-global-specification-for-data-integration&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C251ac4fbf1e94c6d60d908d8be228dcc%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637468402904646152%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Tljmz5WU3RkDkrfLRxrBjNxVSp8B6O%2BPE4iT%2BLFAVuc%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:#954F72">Converging
Digital and Extended Specimens: Towards a global specification for data integration</span></a> are progressing well.
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<span style="color:black">Beginning in February, the </span><a href="http://bit.ly/esdsconsult" target="_blank"><span style="color:#F15A29; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">consultation</span></a><span style="color:black"> will seek to engage the
wider community on a handful of topics that have technical, financial, social, governance and professional implications that require broader discussion and consensus. The consultation aims to expand participation in the process, build support for further collaboration,
identify key use cases, and develop an initial roadmap for community adoption and implementation.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">GBIF, DiSCCo, iDigBio, ALA, and the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), among others, invite you to register for one of the two virtual opening sessions that will be held on February 16 by following the links below and then to
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<span style="color:black">The GBIF community forum <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscourse.gbif.org%2Ft%2Fabout-the-digital-extended-specimen-category%2F2394&data=04%7C01%7Cabentley%40ku.edu%7C251ac4fbf1e94c6d60d908d8be228dcc%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637468402904666139%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=P22mYOJcGolKwFUBP1XgkrCXeLnQtUvT5Cv6wPEYdfE%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL:
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page for the consultation</span></a> is also now live. This page will hold guidance on the consultation process with links to the discussion threads. Please see links on the landing page to more background documents. If you are a new user of the GBIF community
forum you will need to register. </span></p>
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