{"id":402,"title":"F3. Resource Identifier in Metadata","url":"https://github.com/FAIRMetrics/Metrics/blob/master/Distributions/FM_F3.tex","description":"What is being measured? \r\nWhether the metadata document contains the globally unique and persistent identifier for the digital resource.","image":"","tags":"","type":"yesnobut","license":"","rationale":"Why should we measure it? \r\nThe discovery of digital object should be possible from its metadata. For this to happen, the metadata must explicitly contain the identifier for the digital resource it describes, and this should be present in the form of a qualified reference, indicating some manner of \"about\" relationship, to distinguish this identifier from the numerous others that will be present in the metadata.\r\n\r\nIn addition, since many digital objects cannot be arbitrarily extended to include references to their metadata, in many cases the only means to discover the metadata related to a digital object will be to search based on the GUID of the digital object itself.","principle":"F","fairmetrics":"F3 - metadata clearly and explicitly include the identifier of the data it describes","authors":[1271]}