Initiatives relevant to identifiers

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• BD2K (Big Data 2 Knowledge) is a US program supports a variety of initiatives aimed at making better use of the diversity of biomedical data, including various data integration efforts.
• BioMedBridges is an implementation-driven project to integrate data that facilitates translational research.
• DataCite is interested in enabling the persistent identification of data, and develops and supports the standards required to achieve this.
• Diachron intends to address and cope with certain issues arising from the evolution of and identification of data in a web environment
• ELIXIR is a pan-European research infrastructure tasked with safeguarding and managing biological data.
• Force11. This grass roots organization is a forum for technical innovations in scholarly communication, including citation of data and other web artifacts.
  Monarch Initiative. A global consortium dedicated to integrating cross-species genotype-phenotype data for disease discovery.
• RDA is a globally active alliance interested in achieving the open sharing of data across countries, technologies and research domains.
• W3C HCLS. The World Wide Web Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest group aims to develop semantic standards for interoperability.