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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
Metaregistry GitHub username

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.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.c55d5e
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam github
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100010375
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P2037
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 biopragmatics/bioregistry is used to demonstrate the providers available for GitHub username. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
GitHub username github https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/github:biopragmatics/bioregistry
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/github:biopragmatics/bioregistry