Re: [BioPAX-discuss] LSID Best practices...

Ok - thanks.  Also, it seems that there are two namespace models, one 
for RDF IDs, used in OWL documents and one for LSIDs.  I guess that is 
not major but is part of the 'life-science aware' issue you mentioned.

Thanks,
Gary

On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Eric Jain wrote:

>
> Gary Bader wrote:
>> Is there any standard way of resolving LSIDs that are used in this 
>> way?
>
> If you are asking how to actually retrieve the data for an LSID, from 
> the resolution service point of view, then no, I don't think there is 
> any standard way. This is probably one of reasons some people favor 
> the use of URLs as identifiers. I wouldn't go so far, but this is a 
> problem, as this means that your software needs to be 
> "life-science-aware".
>