THE ROLE OF PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS IN E-SCIENCE

The transformations in science produced by the development of ICTs are conceptualized in the model of e-Science. Information on the researchers’ activities in digital form is collected in several systems outside the affiliated institutions. Manuscript submission systems, grant funding applications, data centers, citation indexes, other institutional or disciplinary repositories and personal web pages are all important sources of information. Persistent identifiers allow to discover and collect this information and provide the ability to compare, analyze and combine data with greater efficiency and accuracy. The article provides an overview of the most popular persistent identifiers used in e-Science and describes their role.