LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services

@article{citeulike:2396519, abstract = {Background: Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) are persistent, globally unique identifiers for biological objects. The decentralised nature of LSIDs makes them attractive for identifying distributed resources. Data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) are distributed over many different providers, and this community has adopted LSIDs as the identifier of choice. Results: LSID Tester is a web application written in PHP. Given a LSID the application performs seven tests, reporting the results at each step. If all tests are successful the metadata associated with the LSID is displayed, and can be viewed in a range of formats. Conclusions: The software provides a tool for testing a LSID resolution service. Source code is available from http://code.google.com/p/lsid-php/, and an instance of the application can be viewed at http://linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk/\~{}rpage/lsid/tester.}, author = {Page, Roderic D. M. }, citeulike-article-id = {2396519}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-3-2}, journal = {Source Code for Biology and Medicine}, keywords = {identity-crisis, lsid}, number = {2}, posted-at = {2008-02-19 11:05:47}, priority = {2}, title = {LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-3-2}, volume = {3}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2396519 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2396519 TI - LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services JF - Source Code for Biology and Medicine VL - 3 IS - 2 N2 - Background: Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) are persistent, globally unique identifiers for biological objects. The decentralised nature of LSIDs makes them attractive for identifying distributed resources. Data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) are distributed over many different providers, and this community has adopted LSIDs as the identifier of choice. Results: LSID Tester is a web application written in PHP. Given a LSID the application performs seven tests, reporting the results at each step. If all tests are successful the metadata associated with the LSID is displayed, and can be viewed in a range of formats. Conclusions: The software provides a tool for testing a LSID resolution service. Source code is available from http://code.google.com/p/lsid-php/, and an instance of the application can be viewed at http://linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/tester. KW - identity-crisis KW - lsid AU - Page, Roderic PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-3-2 ER -