Identifier of a taxon or synonym in the Catalogue of Life

Prefix
col
Links
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Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Catalogue of Life should match this regular expression:
^[23456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ]{1,6}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
4QHKG   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Catalogue of Life should match this regular expression:
^col:[23456789BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ]{1,6}$

Example CURIE
col:4QHKG
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Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 1915
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam col
Wikidata (E) Wikidata Entity logo wikidata.entity Q38840
Providers

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 4QHKG is used to demonstrate the providers available for Catalogue of Life. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
Catalogue of Life col https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/3LR/taxon/4QHKG
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/col:4QHKG
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/col:4QHKG
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Provider Name Provider Code URL
Catalogue of Life (COL) col https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4QHKG