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📮 An integrative registry of biological databases, ontologies, and nomenclatures.
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Add `neuroname` prefix for http rather than https urls #182

Closed matentzn closed 3 years ago

matentzn commented 3 years ago

http://bioregistry.io/registry/neuronames

only covers https urls, but there are hundreds of references with http URLs:

http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=
cthoyt commented 3 years ago

So have two different prefixes, one with HTTP and one with HTTPs?

This might finally be the reason we have to do more first-class support for additional providers

matentzn commented 3 years ago

My suggestion is like this:

  1. we have two prefixes, one of which preferred
  2. We connect them somehow with a "consider" relation
  3. We help sources move to the version with the preferred prefix
cthoyt commented 3 years ago

Yes, this is what the "synonyms" field is for. Since I've only ever seen it written as neuronames, I will suggest we keep it that way. Again this also comes back to the need for any IRI parsers to consider both http and https as the same, so I will make some unit tests for this