http://precedings.nature.com/tags/LSID Recently posted documents tagged with 'LSID' Nature Publishing Group en Nature Precedings http://precedings.nature.com/images/header_logo.gif http://precedings.nature.com http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3079/version/1 Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover globally unique identifiers (including, but not limited to, DOIs, HTTP URIs, and LSIDs). bioGUID implements a range of services, the core ones being an OpenURL resolver for bibliographic resources, and a LSID resolver. The LSID resolver supports Linked Data-friendly resolution using HTTP 303 redirects and content negotiation. Additional services include journal ISSN look-up, author name matching, and a tool to monitor the status of biodiversity data providers. bioGUID is available at http://bioguid.info/. Source code is available from Google Code. http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3079/version/1 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:01:04 UTC bioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics hdl:10101/npre.2009.3079.1 2009-04-17 Roderic Page Nature Precedings 2009-04-17T21:01:04Z Manuscript Bioinformatics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1760/version/1 A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifier linking records in different databases. However, taxonomic names have limitations as identifiers, being neither stable nor globally unique, and the pace of molecular taxonomic and phylogenetic research means that a lot of information in public sequence databases is not linked to formal taxonomic names. This review explores the use of other identifiers, such as specimen codes and GenBank accession numbers, to link otherwise disconnected facts in different databases. The structure of these links can also be exploited using the PageRank algorithm to rank the results of searches on biodiversity databases. The key to rich integration is a commitment to deploy and reuse globally unique, shared identifiers (such as DOIs and LSIDs), and the implementation of services that link those identifiers. http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1760/version/1 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:10:36 UTC Biodiversity informatics: the challenge of linking data and the role of shared identifiers hdl:10101/npre.2008.1760.1 2008-04-03 Roderic Page Nature Precedings 2008-04-03T20:10:36Z Manuscript Ecology Bioinformatics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/