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Parameter: Life Science Identifier (LSID)

Short Description: 
Life Science Identifier (LSID)
Short Name: 
LSID
Official Name: 
LSID
External Identifier:
» skos:exactMatch http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificNameID
External Identifier:
» skos:exactMatch http://mmisw.org/ont/cf/parameter/biological_taxon_lsid
External Identifier:
» skos:exactMatch http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P07/current/K78S23CW
Description

Definition from https://www.lsid.info/ (Accessed 2024-07-29):

The Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) is an Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (I3C) and OMG Life Sciences Research (LSR) Uniform Resource Name (URN) specification in progress.

The LSID concept introduces a straightforward approach to naming and identifying data resources stored in multiple, distributed data stores in a manner that overcomes the limitations of naming schemes in use today. Almost every public, internal, or department-level data store today has its own way of naming individual data resources, making integration between different data sources a tedious, never-ending chore for informatics developers and researchers.

By defining a simple, common way to identify and access biologically significant data, whether that data is stored in files, relational databases, in applications, or in internal or public data sources, LSID provides a naming standard underpinning for wide-area science and interoperability.

A detailed LSID URN naming specification is available at the OMG LSR.