Of course, it would have helped if I'd included the address of the
web site where the LSID protocol handler is available (duh!). The
address is http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/ .
Regards
Rod
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Editor Elect, Systematic Biology
DEEB, IBLS
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University of Glasgow
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Phone: +44 141 330 4778
Fax: +44 141 330 2792
email: r.page(a)bio.gla.ac.uk
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I've put together a very simple extension that enables Mozilla and
Firefox to handle the "lsidres" protocol used in IBM's Launchpad to
resolve LSIDs. The extension redirects the browser to the
http://lsid.biopathways.org LSID resolver. Once the extension is
installed, links such as
lsidres://urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lsid.biopathways.org:pubmed:12441807
become clickable.
This is a bit primitive compared to Launchpad, but means that people
who don't use Internet Explorer 6 on Windows can have clickable
LSIDs. The extension has been tested (I use that term loosely) on
Windows 2000, Mac OS X, and Red Hat 8, with Firefox 0.9.2 - 1.0.
Regards
Rod
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Professor Roderic D. M. Page
Editor Elect, Systematic Biology
DEEB, IBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QP
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 141 330 4778
Fax: +44 141 330 2792
email: r.page(a)bio.gla.ac.uk
web: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html
Subscribe to Systematic Biology through the Society of Systematic
Biologists Website: http://systematicbiology.org