IDUtils

Small library for validating and normalising persistent identifiers used in scholarly communication.

• Free software: Revised BSD license
• Documentation: https://idutils.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Validation and normalization of persistent identifiers.
• Detection of persistent identifier scheme.
• Generation of resolving links for persistent identifiers.
• Supported schemes: ISBN10, ISBN13, ISSN, ISTC, DOI, Handle, EAN8, EAN13, ISNI ORCID, ARK, PURL, LSID, URN, Bibcode, arXiv, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, GND, SRA, BioProject, BioSample, Ensembl, UniProt, RefSeq, GenBank/RefSeq.

Installation

The IDUtils package is on PyPI so all you need is:

$ pip install idutils