Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology.

Prefix

adw

Preferred Prefix

ADW

Keywords

anatomy life science ontology taxonomic classification

Links

Homepage OWL

References

GitHub PR https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/pull/1098

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Animal natural history and life history should match this regular expression:
^[A-Z_a-z]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

Lycalopex_vetulus   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Animal natural history and life history should match this regular expression:
^ADW:[A-Z_a-z]+$

Example CURIE

ADW:Lycalopex_vetulus

Pattern for RDF URIs

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ADW_$1

Example RDF URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ADW_Lycalopex_vetulus

Contact

Animal Diversity Web technical staff

Contributors

contributor Sumir H Pandit   0000-0002-1216-4761   sumirp

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 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 Lycalopex_vetulus is used to demonstrate the providers available for Animal natural history and life history. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

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