LSID Authorities

International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Authority

LSID resolver for plant names from the International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Objects identified with LSIDs cover all levels of names (from infraspecifics to families) and the metadata represents the full complexity of the data that IPNI serves.

  • Sample LSIDs (without versions):

UBio Authority

LSID resolver for taxonomic names and concepts from the Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (UBIO).

Index Fungorum Authority

LSID resolver for fungi names from Index Fungorum.

  • LSID authority(ies): indexfungorum.org
  • LSID namespace(s): names
  • Approximate number of LSIDs stored: unknown
  • RDF/OWL ontology used for metadata: unknown
  • Sample LSIDs:

University of Wisconsin CFL

"The first public LSID resolution server. This LSID authority is made possible through a strategic partnership between the North Temperate Lakes LTER and Algenta Technologies.

This server creates a semantic web of data and metadata information drawn from the NTL-LTER datasets, delivered in an RDF format. Each piece of data or metadata is referenced by a globally unique LSID URN. These identifiers are then be referenced by the metadata of other LSIDs, creating relationships between diverse datasets regardless of content management schemas. This allows for a simple integration path among various researchers and institutions to attain wide-area interoperability with multiple, distributed data systems while maintaining their current infrastructure. The LSIDs are resolved through a web-service interface running on this machine. This LSID authority complies to the latest LSID Standard as submitted to the OMG."

Sample LSIDs: