This week's NeuroTools Webinar! Identifiers.org: Compact Identifier Resolution And Services, Dr. Sarala Wimalaratne

This Friday (4/20/18) Dr. Sarala Wimalaratne will join us at 11 AM PST to discuss Identifiers.org: Compact Identifier Resolution And Services. Please join us! Here is the Zoom Link to Join: https://uchealth.zoom.us/j/385642792

Biography: Dr. Sarala Wimalaratne is the Project Lead for the Identifiers.org system. She envisions, implements and manages the Identifiers.org system. She has a Software Engineering degree and a PhD in Bioengineering. Sarala has been involved in many different data integration and infrastructure projects over the past 8 years at the EMBL-EBI. She is actively involved in the Data Commons Pilot Phase Consortium on globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), the Elixir Interoperability Platform on BioSchemas and Identifiers, the FORCE11 Data Citation Implementation Pilot on Identifiers and the EU FREYA Project on identifier services.

Synopsis: The Identifiers.org system is a central infrastructure for findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) data. It provides a range of services to generate, resolve and validate persistent Compact Identifiers to promote the citability of individual data providers and integration with e-infrastructures.

The Identifiers.org registry contains hundreds of manually curated, high quality data collections, with each assigned a unique prefix. A combination of the prefix and a locally assigned database identifier (accession) forms a Compact Identifier, [prefix]:[accession]. The Identifiers.org resolver provides a stable resolution service for these Compact Identifiers, taking into consideration information such as the uptime and reliability of all available hosting resources. For example, pdb:2gc4, GO:0006915, doi:10.1101/101279, orcid:0000-0002-5355-2576 etc. In addition, we have formally agreed with N2T resolver, based in California Digital Library to share a common prefix registry. This enable users to resolve Compact Identifiers using Identifiers.org (https://identifiers.org) or N2T (https://n2t.net/) resolvers. As Compact Identifiers and the resolving mechanisms of identifiers.org are generic, identifiers.org aligns well with other identifier systems and emerging requirements in the PID ecosystem.