identifier [English]

InterPARES Definition

n. ~ IP2, Computing · Terms, such as acronyms, projects, proper names of persons, geographical locations, the number of a patent's specification or of a national standard, or any part or a bibliographical description, test names, and trade names which provide subject indexing, in addition to descriptors.

Other Definitions

  • IP2 Dictionary (†242 s.v. identifier): n., Terms, such as acronyms, projects, proper names of persons, geographical locations, the number of a patent's specification or of a national standard, or any part or a bibliographical description, test names, and trade names which provide subject indexing, in addition to descriptors. [Computer and Information Sciences]
  • IP2 Glossary (†386 s.v. identifier): n., Terms, such as acronyms, projects, proper names of persons, geographical locations, the number of a patent's specification or of a national standard, or any part or a bibliographical description, test names, and trade names which provide subject indexing, in addition to descriptors. [Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]
  • Wikipedia (†387 s.v. identifier): A name that identifies (that is, labels the identity of) either a unique object or a unique class of objects, where the "object" or class may be an idea, physical [countable] object (or class thereof), or physical [noncountable] substance (or class thereof)... An identifier may be a word, number, letter, symbol, or any combination of those.

Citations

  • CESG Identity Proofing, 2013. (†365 p. 7): A thing that is used to repeatedly recognise an individual. The Identifier isn’t required to demonstrate the Identity of the individual only that it can be used to recognise the same individual. (†366)
  • CNSS-4009 (†730 p.34): A data object - often, a printable, non-blank character string - that definitively represents a specific identity of a system entity, distinguishing that identity from all others. (†1730)