@elyw you are right that citing specimens using their specimen codes (triplets) (InstitutionCode+CollectionCode+Catalog No) is tricky; the main problem is how to link the specimen codes to their resolvable GUIDs? And where is that place where the specimen GUIDs would resolve, or in other words where are the “stable http specimen IDs”?
Here is a recent blog on the topic including a proposal for introducing semantically enriched specimen data tables (appendices) in publications. Comments welcome!
- Blog: How to get data from research articles back into the research cycle аt no additional costs?
- Exemplar paper: Patterson et al. (2020): https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.929.50240
- Proposal for a template for ontology-linked and semantically enriched specimen data in publications: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h7IubZT25yh6kECM35iS4XH1TIVlZp_gv2m7lFD6SCU/edit#gid=0