idutils 0.1.0.dev20150000

Small library for persistent identifiers used in scholarly communication.

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

• Free software: Revised BSD license

• Documentation: https://idutils.readthedocs.org.

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.

Installation

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

$ pip install idutils

Changes

Version 0.1.0 (2015-07-01)

• First public release.