Identifiers used by the Brain Image Library

The Brain Image Library (BIL) uses several persistant identifiers to identify data assets. These include:

• Submission Identifiers. BIL assigns a unique id to all data that is part of a submission to the archive. The submission identifier is a 16 digit hexidecimal string. An example of a BIL submission identifier is abcdef0123456789.
• Dataset Identifier. All datasets in BIL are assigned unique identifiers. These identifiers consists of a string of (English) pronouncable triplets. An example of a BIL dataset identifier is "ace-cot-new".
• Traced Neuron Identifier. BIL assigns unique identifiers to traced neurons when additional metadata is available for the neuron. These identifiers are similar to Dataset Identifiers with the exception that they all begin with the triplet "swc".
• DOI (Dataset). When a DOI is issued for a BIL dataset, it will be assigned a URL with the BIL doi prefix (10.35077) plus the BIL data identifier. An example BIL dataset DOI is: "https://doi.org/10.35077/ace-and"
• DOI (Collection/Group). Upon request, BIL issues can issue DOIs which group datasets together into a collection. (For example, to group multiple datasets in BIL for a publication.) These DOIs begin with a "g." followed by a number. An example of a BIL group DOI is: "https://doi.brainimagelibrary.org/doi/10.35077/g.948"