FAIRsharing IDs for collections

[bianchini88]

Link to the page of interest
https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org/tool_resource_update#the-main-yaml-file

Describe what you would change to the page

FAIRsharing collections have an ID that follows the pattern bsg-s000XXX.

This does not seem to be the general case, see for example https://fairsharing.org/3505 or https://fairsharing.org/3508,
these collections use only the four digits as ID, and I cannot locate anything starting with "bsg".

Note also that the ID for COPO in the table (https://fairsharing.org/bsg-d001247) does not bring to a collection but to an entry of the Database registry, which actually has ID FAIRsharing.91a79b (although bsg-d001247 also works, but is not even displayed in the page).

[knirirr]

I'm the technical lead for FAIRsharing.
Any ID beginning with bsg- or biodbcore- dates from the old Biosharing application, an ancestor of FAIRsharing. We've kept these under the legacy_ids field in FAIRsharing as there are still some old links about on the web or in papers which use them. Records created in FAIRsharing aren't assigned one of those identifiers any more.
You are correct in that all our records have a simple numerical ID. However, we are able to mint DOIs for our records and most records will have one of those in the format FAIRsharing.[a-zA-Z0-9]{6}, e.g. https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.9kahy4

[bianchini88]

Thank you so much for your response @knirirr.
We are removing the outdated IDs here: #1587

For FAIRsharing Collections, there is no DOI, right? Only the four digits (as in e.g. https://fairsharing.org/3527)

[knirirr]

No problem, and thanks for removing those outdated IDs.
We could in theory assign a DOI to a collection but it hasn't been done yet.

[bianchini88]

We could in theory assign a DOI to a collection but it hasn't been done yet.

That's alright, I was just checking for the sake of writing it in our documentation.

All good then, thank you very much for your help!