DIDs are an effort by the W3C Credentials Community Group and the wider Internet identity community to define identifiers that can be registered, updated, resolved, and revoked without any dependency on a central authority or intermediary.
did
Local identifiers in Decentralized Identifier should match this
regular expression:
^[a-z0-9]+:[A-Za-z0-9.\-:]+$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Decentralized Identifier should match
this regular expression:
^did:[a-z0-9]+:[A-Za-z0-9.\-:]+$
namespaceEmbeddedInLUI
as true. The actual
part that gets prefixed before the local unique identifier regex,
otherwise known as the banana, is
did:
.
Therefore, you might see local unique identifiers written out as CURIEs.
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are
2 mappings to external registries for did
with
1 unique external prefixes.
Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
---|---|---|---|
Identifiers.org
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miriam |
did
|
|
Name-to-Thing
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n2t |
did
|
Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
did:sov:WRfXPg8dantKVubE3HX8pw
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
did
. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.