What is a SEIPID? The Identifier with Integrity Built In
A SEIPID (Scholarly Entity International Persistent Identifier) is more than just a string of characters. It is a trust anchor for the digital scholarly world — a unique, persistent, and human-readable identifier that identifies the scholarly entity itself, not its temporary location on the web.
🌍 Digital-First. Environment-Conscious.
We designed SEIPID for a digital-only scholarly future. While traditional identifiers were built for a print-heavy world, SEIPID embraces the reality that scholarship today is created, shared, and consumed digitally. By prioritizing digital entities over print, we reduce the environmental footprint of academic publishing — less paper, less waste, more access.
When you assign a SEIPID to an article, dataset, thesis, or conference paper, you're not just giving it a name. You're placing it within an integrity-verified ecosystem where every identifier carries the signal that its source journal has passed the ALIF Pre-Index quality gate. A SEIPID is earned, not bought — and that single principle transforms what a persistent identifier can represent.
Unlike URLs that break or platforms that disappear, a SEIPID remains stable for the lifetime of the scholarship. It resolves not to a fragile web address, but to a rich public registry record — complete with verified metadata, integrity signals, and current access points. Even if a journal migrates platforms or a publisher changes hands, the SEIPID stays true, and the scholarship stays citable.
How the SEIPID String Works
A SEIPID follows a simple but powerful structure: [PREFIX]:[NAMESPACE]:[SUFFIX] — three segments, separated by colons, each serving a specific purpose in the identification chain.
The Prefix: A unique number assigned to each registering entity (journal, publisher, university).
This ensures global uniqueness at the organizational level. 000 might represent a specific journal,
045 a university press.
The Namespace: A human-readable abbreviation for the journal or publisher — like xijir
for "Xpertno International Journal of Integrity Research." This makes SEIPIDs recognizable and memorable,
not just random strings.
The Suffix: A controlled identifier for the specific scholarly item. For journal articles,
we use patterns like v1n1a1 (Volume 1, Number 1, Article 1). For other content types:
- Books:
b1e1c0(Book 1, Edition 1, Chapter 0) - Theses:
phd2025-001(PhD thesis, year, sequence) - Conference papers:
conf23-042(Conference 2023, paper 42) - Datasets:
ds:v2-003(Dataset, version 2, item 3)
This flexible yet consistent structure allows SEIPID to identify any scholarly digital entity — from traditional articles to born-digital datasets, software, and multimedia — all within a single, coherent identifier framework. No print equivalent required. Ever.
Regardless of content type, every SEIPID resolves through the SEIPID resolver (https://seipid.com/000:xijir:v1n1a1) to a public registry record. This record displays verified metadata, registry status, and official links — information that can be updated over time without breaking citations or references.
A SEIPID is a persistent, integrity-verified, digital-first identifier for any scholarly entity — earned through quality checks, connected to a rich ecosystem, and built to last.
Digging Deeper: What Makes SEIPID Different
Beyond the string structure — the philosophy and infrastructure that give SEIPID its power.
Example: SEIPID in Action
Each SEIPID resolves to a public record that includes essential metadata, registry status, and reliable links—so readers, editors, and institutions can quickly confirm what they’re viewing.
The record can be updated without breaking citations, while the SEIPID remains stable as a long-term reference for the scholarly item.
- Public metadata record
- Registry status & signals
- Stable resolution link