Registry Digical Object Container Identifier

Assigns persistent identifiers to multidisciplinary research outputs with focus on research originating in Africa, such as in cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge.

Prefix

docid

Alternative Prefixes

DOCiD

Keywords

bibliometrics cultural heritage digital humanities publishing

Links

Homepage Mailing List Request Discussion

Contact

Joy Owango 0000-0002-3910-2691 Africa-PID-Alliance

Identifier Space Owner

University of Nairobi

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697 Resolve

Example CURIE

docid:20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Providers

Suggest

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Digical Object Container Identifier. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
Digical Object Container Identifier	`docid`	https://docid.africapidalliance.org/docid/20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/docid:20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697

Normalize prefixes. This can be any capitalization or punctuation variant of the synonyms listed below.

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.normalize_prefix("DOCiD")
'docid'

Get all synonyms:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_synonyms("docid")
{'DOCiD'}

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("docid")
'Digical Object Container Identifier'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("docid")
'https://docid.africapidalliance.org/'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("docid")
'Joy Owango'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("docid")
'Africa-PID-Alliance'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("docid")
'0000-0002-3910-2691'