1 Henning Hermjakob Molecular Systems EMBL-EBI [email protected]

2 Slide title Challenge Data collections change their URLs Data collections have multiple locations NCBI taxonomy is available from NCBI, UniProt, ENA, … Data collections can provide multiple content formats Html, pdf, rdf, …

3 Slide title The aim of the Identifiers.org project is to provide unique, stable, resolvable and location-independent URIs to identify and locate scientific data Community driven Free to use Two components: 1. Curated Registry of data collections 2. Resolution Service Response

4 Slide title 500+ curated data collections http://identifiers.org/registry Registry

5 Slide title One Data Collection – Many Locations

6 Slide title Registry of collections..

7 Slide title.. and their namespaces

8 Slide title Taxonomy Name The taxonomy contains the relationships between all living... Description ^\d+$ Identifier pattern taxonomy Namespace http://identifiers.org/taxonomy/ http://bio2rdf.org/taxonomy URI schemes Resource providers Data Collection

9 Slide title.. resolving locations resources

10 Slide title Homo sapiens in Taxonomy (9606) http://identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606 [Data collection][Entity identifier] Creating unique URIs

11 Slide title http://identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606 URI to identify the entity 'Homo sapiens' in the data collection Taxonomy Creating unique URIs

12 Slide title http://identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606 URI to identify the Registry's record of this concept http://info.identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606 Creating unique URIs

13 Slide title http://identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606 URI to identify the Registry's record of this concept http://info.identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606 [Resource] Creating unique URIs

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17 Slide title Content negotiation Identifiers.org Registry supports (X)HTML RDF/XML http://info.identifiers.org/ec-code/1.1.1.1.rdf http://info.identifiers.org/ec-code/1.1.1.1.html

18 Slide title [Resource] Taxonomy [Data collection] html RDF json The Registry records the formats provided by the various data resources DEV: Support for different formats [Resource]

19 Slide title DEV: Support for different formats

20 Slide title DEV: Community Curation Users will be able to login to the Registry  using Google / Yahoo / other Update records for which they have been granted access Create profiles  select the data collections they use  preselect a preferred resolving location (or resource) for each of them http://identifiers.org/pubmed/22140103?profile=[your profile name]

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22 Identifiers.org – http://identifiers.org/ Registry – http://identifiers.org/registry Mailing lists  Support – [email protected]  Discussion – [email protected] Requests – https://sourceforge.net/projects/identifiers-org/ We appreciate your support! How to contribute

23 Slide title Camille Laibe Nick Juty Sarala Wimalaratne Nicolas Le Novère Henning Hermjakob [email protected] [email protected] Michel Dumontier Michael Galperin Pascale Gaudet Lee Harland Henning Hermjakob Michael Hucka Toshiaki Katayama Nicolas Le Novère Philippe Rocca-Serra Mark Wilkinson Trustees Contact Team Acknowledgments