The web server that hosts most of my LSID work (including the Taxonomy Search Engine) got hacked recently. Rebuilding it is taking time, but one positive outcome is I'm trying to clean up some LSID stuff.
I've rebuilt the LSID authority for PubMed, GenBank, and NCBI taxonomy (by hacking Roger Hyam's PHP code - IBM's Perl stack is giving me grief on a Fedora Core 4 box). These are, of course, experimental, but hopefully the RDF will be of interest. I've tried to use standard vocabularies, and link between records wherever possible (e.g., a PubMed record for a paper will list sequences referred to in that paper, a sequence will link back to the paper in which it was published, etc.). I've set this up partly to support my attempt to build a triple store for ants (see http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2006/05/ants-rdf-and-triple-stores.html), which I hope to have running in time for GUID2.
You can try out the LSIDs, which have the form
urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lsid.zoology.gla.ac.uk: pubmed or gi or taxon : id
e.g.
urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lsid.zoology.gla.ac.uk:pubmed:16601190
urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lsid.zoology.gla.ac.uk:gi:87047074
urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lsid.zoology.gla.ac.uk:taxon:369204
There's a lot more which could be added to the metadata, but I hope this is of interest.
Regards
Rod
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