TY - JOUR
T1 - Uniform resolution of compact identifiers for biomedical data
AU - Wimalaratne, Sarala M.
AU - Juty, Nick
AU - Kunze, John
AU - Janée, Greg
AU - McMurry, Julie A.
AU - Beard, Niall
AU - Jimenez, Rafael
AU - Grethe, Jeffrey S.
AU - Hermjakob, Henning
AU - Martone, Maryann E.
AU - Clark, Tim
PY - 2018/5/8
Y1 - 2018/5/8
N2 - Most biomedical data repositories issue locally-unique accessions numbers, but do not provide globally unique, machine-resolvable, persistent identifiers for their datasets, as required by publishers wishing to implement data citation in accordance with widely accepted principles. Local accessions may however be prefixed with a namespace identifier, providing global uniqueness. Such "compact identifiers" have been widely used in biomedical informatics to support global resource identification with local identifier assignment. We report here on our project to provide robust support for machine-resolvable, persistent compact identifiers in biomedical data citation, by harmonizing the Identifiers.org and N2T.net (Name-To-Thing) meta-resolvers and extending their capabilities. Identifiers.org services hosted at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and N2T.net services hosted at the California Digital Library (CDL), can now resolve any given identifier from over 600 source databases to its original source on the Web, using a common registry of prefix-based redirection rules. We believe these services will be of significant help to publishers and others implementing persistent, machine-resolvable citation of research data.
AB - Most biomedical data repositories issue locally-unique accessions numbers, but do not provide globally unique, machine-resolvable, persistent identifiers for their datasets, as required by publishers wishing to implement data citation in accordance with widely accepted principles. Local accessions may however be prefixed with a namespace identifier, providing global uniqueness. Such "compact identifiers" have been widely used in biomedical informatics to support global resource identification with local identifier assignment. We report here on our project to provide robust support for machine-resolvable, persistent compact identifiers in biomedical data citation, by harmonizing the Identifiers.org and N2T.net (Name-To-Thing) meta-resolvers and extending their capabilities. Identifiers.org services hosted at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and N2T.net services hosted at the California Digital Library (CDL), can now resolve any given identifier from over 600 source databases to its original source on the Web, using a common registry of prefix-based redirection rules. We believe these services will be of significant help to publishers and others implementing persistent, machine-resolvable citation of research data.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85046718418
U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2018.29
DO - 10.1038/sdata.2018.29
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046718418
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 5
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
M1 - 180029
ER -