1 minute read.At Last! URIs for InChI
The info registry has now added in the InChI namespace (see registry entry here) which now means that chemical compounds identified by InChIs (IUPAC‘s International Chemical Identifiers) are expressible in URI form and thus amenable to many Web-based description technologies that use URI as the means to identify objects, e.g. XLink, RDF, etc. As an example, the InChI identifier for naphthalene is
InChI=1/C10H8/c1-2-6-10-8-4-3-7-9(10)5-1/h1-8H
and can now be legitimately expressed in URI form as
info:inchi/InChI=1/C10H8/c1-2-6-10-8-4-3-7-9(10)5-1/h1-8H
The info URI scheme exists to support legacy namespaces get a leg up onto the Web. Registered namespaces include PubMed identifiers, DOIs, handles, ADS bibcodes, etc. Increasingly we’ll be expecting to see identifiers (both new and old) represented in a common form - URI.
Further reading
- Feb 1, 2007 – RSC launches semantic enrichment of journal articles
- Jan 17, 2017 – Linking DOIs using HTTPs: the background to our new guidelines
- Aug 3, 2010 – XMP in RSC PDFs
- Oct 13, 2009 – Crossref Labs
- Jan 17, 2009 – Standard InChI Defined
- Jul 28, 2008 – Does Size Matter?
- Oct 2, 2007 – InChIKey
- Jul 19, 2007 – Publishing Linked Data
