bioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics.
BACKGROUND
Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover globally unique identifiers (including, but not limited to, DOIs, HTTP URIs, and LSIDs).


RESULTS
bioGUID implements a range of services, the core ones being an OpenURL resolver for bibliographic resources, and a LSID resolver. The LSID resolver supports Linked Data-friendly resolution using HTTP 303 redirects and content negotiation. Additional services include journal ISSN look-up, author name matching, and a tool to monitor the status of biodiversity data providers.


CONCLUSIONS
bioGUID is available at http://bioguid.info/. Source code is available from http://code.google.com/p/bioguid/.
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Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk
D044822:Biodiversity; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet