GitHub is an online host of Git source code repositories.

Prefix

github

Keywords

knowledge and information systems software engineering subject agnostic

Links

Homepage Repository

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in GitHub username should match this regular expression:
^[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(/[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)?$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

biopragmatics/bioregistry   Resolve
biopragmatics   Resolve
cthoyt   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GitHub username should match this regular expression:
^github:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(/[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)?$

Example CURIEs

github:biopragmatics/bioregistry
github:biopragmatics
github:cthoyt

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

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 biopragmatics/bioregistry is used to demonstrate the providers available for GitHub username. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.