Eric, First off, let me applaud your efforts and say they are very timely indeed, and we intend to use them as much as possible... Eric Jain wrote: > Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> Do you assign LSIDs to those resources too? If so is there a way to >> figure out which are "yours" and which are "theirs"? > > One of the main reasons for using LSIDs was that I need proper URIs for all > the resources we reference, and most resources have two meter long, > frequently changing cgi-bin URLs (OK, I'm exaggerating, but not much). I'm not sure this is true-- why not set up your uniprot server to do (internal) redirection similar to how purl.org works? Then the url would be persistent and almost look like an lsid: e.g., http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 > Moreover, what is "ours" and what is "theirs" isn't always clear (again, > consider the taxonomy data, which is basically the NCBI taxonomy), though > in general if it resolves to one of our servers, then it's probably ours. In light of what steps Uniprot has taken, I hope our conversation with NCBI and a possible URI space go forwards... cheers, Eric
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