Add a GenericIdentifier schema

[apdavison]

cf https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS/issues/51

[apdavison]

Please double check in how far this issue is not already covered by the core schema for Identifiers.org (for Pubmed cf. https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/pubmed)

identifiers.org is limited in scope to life sciences. As an example, it doesn't include https://hal.science identifiers (as far as I can see) or other national science repositories.

[lzehl]

@apdavison should we then not define "type" / "name" in the schema but just identifier and the emitter? I think we should push people to register official identifiers through typed schemas (because they can actually validate the format of the identifier).

I agree that the typing all of them is though a bit cumbersome. The clean alternative for this would be the following:

• schema for identifierType: (with controlled instance library in openMINDS)

  • name (string)
  • regex pattern (string, regex)

• schema for digitalIdentifier:

  • type (link to identifierType)
  • identifier
  • emitter (optional) [or would that go to the identifierType?]

Research products would then only point to digitalIdentifier schema. Unfortunately this approach would cause a lot of change to the running system. It might be worth it though...

[apdavison]

That would be a cleaner way to do it. I suggest we think about making that change for the next-but-one release. This schema is then a stop-gap, to provide the flexibility needed in https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS/issues/51 but without defining a whole bunch of explicit identifier schemas.

The schema needs "type" or "kind", since a given Organization might emit more than one type of identifier.

[lzehl]

@apdavison I agree with the plan to push this change to the next development round. (also because Oli would kill me if we do this now :see_no_evil: )