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From: Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:49:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 # This is where identifiers die
 
+This project collects identifiers that are, for some reason, no longer pointing to active records
+in the corresponding database. As such, these identifiers should no longer be used. By collecting
+them in a machine readable way, we can make it easier to automate the detection of dead identifiers
+in data curation workflows.