Schema driven assignment and implementation of life science identifiers (LSIDs).

@article{citeulike:2967129, abstract = {Life science identifier (LSID) is a global unique identifier standard intended to help rationalize the unique archival requirements of biological data. We describe LSID implementation architecture such that data managed by a relational database management system may be integrated with the LSID protocol as an add-on layer. The approach requires a database administrator (DBA) to specify an export schema detailing the content and structure of the archived data, and a mapping of the existing database to that schema. This specification can be expressed using SQL view syntax. In effect, we define a SQL-like language for implementing LSIDs. We describe the mapping of the view definition to an implementation as a set of databases triggers and a fixed runtime library. Thus a compiler for a domain-specific language could be written that would reduce the implementation of LSIDs to the task of writing SQL view-like definitions.}, address = {Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.}, author = {Bafna, Sapna and Humphries, Julian and Miranker, Daniel P P. }, citeulike-article-id = {2967129}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2008.05.014}, issn = {1532-0480}, journal = {Journal of biomedical informatics}, keywords = {identity, lsid}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2008-07-06 12:41:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Schema driven assignment and implementation of life science identifiers (LSIDs).}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2008.05.014}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2967129 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2967129 TI - Schema driven assignment and implementation of life science identifiers (LSIDs). JF - Journal of biomedical informatics AD - Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA. SN - 1532-0480 N2 - Life science identifier (LSID) is a global unique identifier standard intended to help rationalize the unique archival requirements of biological data. We describe LSID implementation architecture such that data managed by a relational database management system may be integrated with the LSID protocol as an add-on layer. The approach requires a database administrator (DBA) to specify an export schema detailing the content and structure of the archived data, and a mapping of the existing database to that schema. This specification can be expressed using SQL view syntax. In effect, we define a SQL-like language for implementing LSIDs. We describe the mapping of the view definition to an implementation as a set of databases triggers and a fixed runtime library. Thus a compiler for a domain-specific language could be written that would reduce the implementation of LSIDs to the task of writing SQL view-like definitions. KW - identity KW - lsid AU - Bafna, Sapna AU - Humphries, Julian AU - Miranker, Daniel P PY - 2008/06/13/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2008.05.014 ER -