Almost every product on our site has its own ASIN, a unique code we use to identify it. For books, the ASIN is the same as the ISBN number, but for all other products a new ASIN is created when the item is uploaded to our catalogue.

Prefix
asin
Links
Homepage
References
GitHub PR https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/pull/1141
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Amazon Standard Identification Number should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]{10}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
0471491039   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Amazon Standard Identification Number should match this regular expression:
^asin:[0-9]{10}$

Example CURIE
asin:0471491039
Contacts
Contact
Missing Contact
Contributors
contributor Sumir H Pandit   0000-0002-1216-4761   sumirp
Metaregistry Amazon Standard Identification Number

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm 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 ASIN
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam asin
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t asin
Wikidata (E) Wikidata Entity logo wikidata.entity Q1753278
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 0471491039 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Amazon Standard Identification Number. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Amazon Standard Identification Number asin https://amzn.com/0471491039
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/asin:0471491039
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/asin:0471491039
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/asin:0471491039