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<div>One minor quibble about the metadata these LSIDs serve. The date in "dcterms" created doesn't conform to "best practice" (ghastly term). Dublin Core recommends using a scheme such as ISO 8601 (see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime">http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime</a>).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Dates such as "8/24/07 8:59 AM" in <a href="urn:lsid">urn:lsid</a>:cate-araceae.org:taxonconcepts:274386 can cause confusion (e.g., what time zone is being used? is the first digit a month or a day?, etc.). Something like</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>2007-08-27T08:59Z is unambiguous and computer friendly.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I only bring this up as anybody who was going to make use of these dates would have the painful task of fixing them. Let's try and avoid the mess that DiGIR providers have lumbered us with (see <a href="http://semant.blogspot.com/2006/11/damn-digir.html">http://semant.blogspot.com/2006/11/damn-digir.html</a> ).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On 8 Oct 2007, at 15:10, Benjamin Clark wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear All,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought I would chip in and say that the two CATE websites are</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">resolving LSIDs for taxon concepts, and returning metadata typed according</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to <a href="http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonConcept">http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonConcept</a>. Their urls are</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.cate-araceae.org">http://www.cate-araceae.org</a> which is a web-revision of the Araceae (Arums</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and relatives) and <a href="http://www.cate-sphingidae.org">http://www.cate-sphingidae.org</a> which is a web-revision of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the Sphingidae (Hawkmoths). In each case, we're returing the concept sensu</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the web-revision, rather than a paper publication, which means that it is</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the name as used by the editorial boards of the websites and published on</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the pages of the website. It is the intention to extend this group through</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the addition of an open peer-review process (see</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.cate-project.org">http://www.cate-project.org</a>).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">At the moment, we're only returning taxon concepts, name strings, a link to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the taxon page on the website, and taxonomic relationships to other taxon</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">concepts (child taxa and synonyms). The Araceae site also returns IPNI lsids</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">where we've been able to match the name to a name in IPNI. We'd like to do</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the same for the sphingids if an authority for sphingid names becomes</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">available. We've got lots of descriptive information as well, and I expect</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that we'll use the SPM to make that available eventually.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ben</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tdwg-tnc mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:tdwg-tnc@lists.tdwg.org">tdwg-tnc@lists.tdwg.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tnc">http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tnc</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Professor Roderic D. 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