[Zoobank-list] Re: ZooBank Guiding Principles Document

[Lee Belbin]

Apologies for the last post, but some of the information may have been
informative. I fall for the 'Reply' button trick on occasions. As I'd
planned a post anyway...
 
The TDWG Infrastructure Project (http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tip/) has
LSIDs as one of its priorities for 2007. As Rich said, the Project funded
two workshops to determine a strategy for Globally Unique Identifiers. One
outcome was the selection of LSIDs as the GUID of choice in bioinformatics. 
 
Subsequently, we have written two introductory documents (LSIDs for
<http://www.tdwg.org/uploads/media/LSIDs_for_Biologists.pdf> Biologists and
LSID for  <http://www.tdwg.org/uploads/media/LSIDs_for_Managers.pdf>
Managers), an Applicability
<http://www.tdwg.org/uploads/media/TDWG_LSID_Applicability_Statement_11_10_2
006.doc> Statement, and generated a list of LSID resources
<http://www.tdwg.org/uploads/media/LSID_Resources.pdf> . The Project is
planning a demonstration application at the TDWG meeting
<http://www.tdwg.org/conference2007/> in September that shows the benefits
of LSIDs .
 
The Project is also in the process of providing funds to support the
following (LSID-related) projects

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	An LSID resolution service for specimens (Kevin Richards)
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	An LSID resolution service for TAPIR (Kevin Richards)
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	An LSID resolution service for CATE (Ben Clark)
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	An LSID implementation policy (Greg Whitbread)
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	Enabling LSIDs and TCS in Species 2000 (Richard White)

and as the previous post mentioned, we are hoping to be able to support
ZooBank in the deployment of LSIDs.  
 
Lee
 
Lee Belbin
Manager, TDWG Infrastructure Project
Email: lee at tdwg.org
Phone: +61(0)419 374 133 

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