ivo://ivoa.net/std/Identifiers IVOA Demleitner, M. Plante, R. Linde, T. Williams, R. Noddle, K. 2016-05-23 2.0 IVOA Registry WG registry@ivoa.net Virtual observatory URI An IVOA Identifier is a globally unique name for a resource within the Virtual Observatory. This name can be used to retrieve a unique description of the resource from an IVOA-compliant registry or to identify an entity like a dataset or a protocol without dereferencing the identifier. This document describes the syntax for IVOA Identifiers as well as how they are created. The syntax has been defined to encourage global-uniqueness naturally and to maximize the freedom of resource providers to control the character content of an identifier. http://www.ivoa.net/documents/Identifiers Other Research 2.0