identificiranja

Identificiranja is the act or process of establishing the identity of an individual, object, event, or data item. It is a broad concept used across disciplines to determine who or what is present, or to resolve records and datasets to single identities. The term is derived from the verb identificirati, with the agentive suffix -iranje, common in many South Slavic languages.

Contexts include law enforcement and border control, where identification determines eligibility for entry or custody; in information technology, where systems identify users or data records to enable processing, access control, or data integration; and in sciences such as biology and archaeology, where it refers to determining the species, provenance, or classification of a specimen or artifact. In data management, identificiranje is related to identity resolution and entity resolution, the process of linking multiple records that refer to the same real-world object.

Typical methods combine something the subject knows (password), something the subject has (token), and something the subject is (biometric data). When used for people, identifikacija can rely on documents, credentials, or biometric measurements; for objects, serial numbers, barcodes, or RFID; for data, hashing, metadata, and contextual signals. Important distinction: identification aims to determine identity, while authentication verifies a claimed identity, and authorization determines access levels.

Challenges include privacy, bias in biometric systems, data quality, and regulatory compliance such as data protection laws. Proper governance requires informed consent, minimization of data collection, and secure handling.

Applications range from security and public safety to customer onboarding, data deduplication, and research.