Assigns persistent identifiers to multidisciplinary research outputs with focus on research originating in Africa, such as in cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge.

Prefix
docid
Alternative Prefixes
DOCiD
Keywords
bibliometrics cultural heritage digital humanities publishing
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Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Local unique identifiers in Digical Object Container Identifier should match this regular expression:
^20\.500\.14351\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+$
Example Local Unique Identifier
20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Digical Object Container Identifier should match this regular expression:
^docid:20\.500\.14351\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+$
Example CURIE
docid:20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Identifiers.org namespace Identifiers.org namespace logo miriam docid
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 20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Digical Object Container Identifier. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
Digical Object Container Identifier docid https://docid.africapidalliance.org/docid/20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/docid:20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697
Identifiers.org namespace miriam https://identifiers.org/docid:20.500.14351/5a7cdd09d9b65bc39697