This project collects identifiers that are, for some reason, no longer pointing to active records in the corresponding database. As such, these identifiers should no longer be used. By collecting them in a machine readable way, we can make it easier to automate the detection of dead identifiers in data curation workflows.
The following is a short summary of the contents of this resource:
The data in the data folder is structured like as follows. Filenames follow the namespace of
the resources as defined by identifiers.org and used in compact identifiers. The content of
the file is a comma-separated values file with one or more columns:
#did: the dead identifierwhen: when the identifier stopped being usednextofkin: the identifier that replaces the identifier (for some reason)
This model is incomplete and volatile, but applies to Release 1.
A collation of all curations can be found in artifacts/collated.tsv.
Run tests using tox with the following commands in the shell:
$ pip install tox
$ toxThe tests are also run using GitHub Actions following all commits to the main branch and pull requests to the main branch.