Global Trade Item Number - Wikipedia The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is an identifier for trade items, developed by the international organization GS1 [1] Such identifiers are used to look up product information in a database (often by entering the number through a barcode scanner pointed at an actual product) which may belong to a retailer, manufacturer, collector, researcher, or other entity
Item Unique Identification - Wikipedia Unique Identification Marking, UID marking, Item Unique Identification or IUID, is a part of the compliance process mandated by the United States Department of Defense It is a permanent marking method used to give equipment a unique ID
Electronic Product Code - Wikipedia An EPC RFID tag used by Wal-Mart Textil RFID tag with printed Electronic Product Code The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is designed as a universal identifier (using an idiosyncratic numerical code for each different commodity [1]) that provides a unique identity for every physical object anywhere in the world, for all time
Digital object identifier - Wikipedia 182 is the suffix, or item ID, identifying a single object (in this case, the latest version of the DOI Handbook) DOI names can identify creative works (such as texts, images, audio or video items, and software) in both electronic and physical forms, performances, and abstract works [18] such as licenses, parties to a transaction, etc
Part number - Wikipedia A business using a part will often use a different part number than the various manufacturers of that part do This is especially common for catalog hardware, because the same or similar part design (say, a screw with a certain standard thread, of a certain length) might be made by many corporations (as opposed to unique part designs, made by only one or a few)
Configuration item - Wikipedia The term configuration item (CI) refers to the fundamental structural unit of a configuration management system [1] Examples of CIs include individual hardware or software components The configuration-management system oversees the life of the CIs through a combination of processes and tools by implementing and enabling the fundamental elements of identification, change management , status
Publisher Item Identifier - Wikipedia The Publisher Item Identifier (PII) is a unique identifier used by a number of scientific journal publishers to identify documents [1] It uses the pre-existing ISSN or ISBN of the publication in question, and adds a character for source publication type, an item number, and a check digit
Identifier - Wikipedia ID codes may inherently carry metadata along with them For example, when you know that the food package in front of you has the identifier "2011-09-25T15:42Z-MFR5-P02-243-45", you not only have that data, you also have the metadata that tells you that it was packaged on September 25, 2011, at 3:42pm UTC, manufactured by Licensed Vendor Number 5, at the Peoria, IL, USA plant, in Building 2