[Zoobank-list] ZooBank Data Objects

[Richard Pyle]

I have just now figured out how to create new pages on the TDWG Wiki, and
therefore moved my lengthy comments to this new page:

http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/UsageInstanceProposal

Aloha,
Rich 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org 
> [mailto:zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:31 PM
> To: 'Zoobank Discussion List (ICZN)'
> Subject: RE: [Zoobank-list] ZooBank Data Objects
> 
> 
> Thanks, Ricardo -- this is very helpful.  I added a few 
> comments and altered the wording in a few places on this page:
> http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/GUIDsForZoologicalNames
> 
> ...and I also wrote a large diatribe about focusing on "Usage 
> Instances" as the core unit of nomenclatural data exchange, 
> rather than trying to create a common notion of "Name Object" 
> (which exists in far more flavors than just the two 
> Code-relevant versions) -- which I appended to the bottom of this
> page: 
> http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/RichPylesExamples (I 
> couldn't figure out how to create a new page).
> 
> Aloha,
> Rich
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org 
> > [mailto:zoobank-list-bounces at afriherp.org] On Behalf Of Ricardo 
> > Pereira
> > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:28 PM
> > To: zoobank-list at afriherp.org
> > Subject: Re: [Zoobank-list] ZooBank Data Objects
> > 
> >     Hi all,
> > 
> >     I have created a wiki page on the TDWG-GUID wiki to fulfill 
> > various requests made in this thread. The page is at:
> > http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/GUIDsForZoologicalNames
> > 
> >     In that page I tried to summarize the answers to the three most 
> > important questions raised in this discussion thread:
> > 
> > 1. Are GUIDs relevant to zoological names and ZooBank?
> > 2. Why use LSIDs (and not another GUID technology) with zoological 
> > names?
> > 3. How should we assign LSIDs to zoological names?
> > 
> >     Please feel free to either post your comments regarding 
> this topic 
> > to the list or add it directly to the wiki page above. 
> Comments sent 
> > to the list will be added to the wiki as we go along.
> > 
> >     Cheers,
> > 
> > Ricardo Pereira
> > TDWG Infrastructure Project
> > 
> > 
> > 
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