Life Science Identifiers

• Name: Life Science Identifiers
• Alternative Name: LSID
• Specification URI: https://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?dtc/04-10-08.pdf
• Scope: Publication, Citation, Conference, Person, Organization, Dataset, DataRepository, Grants, Project, Experiment, Investigation, Analysis, Software, Computer Simulation, Software License, Equipment, Sample
• Disciplines: Life Science, Biology
• Keywords: life science
• Description: Life Science Identifiers are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. Essentially, an LSID is a unique identifier for some data, and the LSID protocol specifies a standard way to locate the data (as well as a standard way of describing that data).