Life Science Identifier
From Dipluridae
Life Science Identifiers are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. Essentially, an LSID is a unique identifier for some data, and the LSID protocol specifies a standard way to locate the data (as well as a standard way of describing that data).
An LSID is represented as a Uniform Resource Name (URN) with the following format.
- URN:LSID:<Authority>:<Namespace>:<ObjectID>[:<Version>]
External links
- Life Sciences Identifiers: OMG Final Available Specification http://www.omg.org/docs/dtc/04-10-08.pdf PDF
- LSID Resolution Project
- LSID best practices from IBM
- LSID Assigning and Resolution Authority from The University of Texas at Austin
- Life Science Identifier from BioPathways Consortium
- LSID Tester
