Minid are identifiers used to provide robust reference to intermediate data generated during the course of a research investigation.

Prefix
minid
Keywords
citation data retrieval publication subject agnostic
Links
Homepage
Contact
Ian Foster   0000-0003-2129-5269
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Minimal Viable Identifier should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z0-9]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
b97957   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Minimal Viable Identifier should match this regular expression:
^minid:[A-Za-z0-9]+$

Example CURIE
minid:b97957
Publications
Metaregistry Minimal Viable Identifier

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext MINID
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.d099fb
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam minid
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t minid
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 b97957 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Minimal Viable Identifier. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Minimal Viable Identifier minid https://hdl.handle.net/hdl:20.500.12582/b97957
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/minid:b97957
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/minid:b97957
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/minid:b97957