A collaborative project intended to create an encyclopedia documenting all living species known to science

Prefix
eolife
Keywords
biodiversity biology ecology taxonomy
Links
Homepage
Contact
EOL Secretariat   0000-0002-9943-2342
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Encyclopedia of Life should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
1044544   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Encyclopedia of Life should match this regular expression:
^eolife:\d+$

Example CURIE
eolife:1044544
Contributors
Metaregistry Encyclopedia of Life

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.3J6NYn
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100010229
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P830
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 1044544 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Encyclopedia of Life. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Encyclopedia of Life eolife https://eol.org/pages/1044544
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/eolife:1044544