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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
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The [http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/ Illinois Natural History Survey] (INHS) fish collection has graciously shared the 105,742 specimen records that is going to be used in this transformation example. The records were extracted as a Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file from the INHS FileMaker Pro database, and all records were provided with a Globally Unique IDentifier (GUID). The GUID technology | The [http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/ Illinois Natural History Survey] (INHS) fish collection has graciously shared the 105,742 specimen records that is going to be used in this transformation example. The records were extracted as a Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file from the INHS FileMaker Pro database, and all specimen records were provided with a Globally Unique IDentifier (GUID). The GUID technology chosen by the INHS collection managers was an HTTP-based URI of the form: | ||
<pre>http://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/fish/INHS<catalogue_number></pre> | <pre>http://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/fish/INHS<catalogue_number></pre> | ||
Once the data was received, the uniqueness of the identifier | Once the data was received, the first step was to verify the uniqueness of the identifier (GUID). Checking can be quickly performed either using the unique filter of Excel or using the Unix 'uniq' command. This dataset was perfect with respect to this aspect. | ||
== Mapping terms to standard terms == | == Mapping terms to standard terms == | ||