[tdwg-tag] GUID and LSID standards

[Hilmar Lapp]

What about adopting the infrastructure that the W3C uses for publishing their documents and standards? It seems to be working for them.

	-hilmar

On Mar 16, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Blum, Stan wrote:

> Unfortunately, the TDWG collaboration infrastructure does not work as it
> once did.  It hasn't for more than 3 years.  It is even more unfortunate
> that many of the pages critical to facilitating standards development and
> dissemination are the broken ones, and we haven't yet been able to figure
> out how to override the broken parts.  Something between a significant to
> complete replacement is in order.  At the moment, we are trying to explore
> our options, but progress is slow as we are all overcommitted with our day
> jobs.  
> 
> As always, TDWG is open to contributions of all kinds, from suggestions,
> to effort, to funding.  We do have modest resources to support the
> re-implementation. 
> 
> -Stan
> 
> TDWG Treasurer
> 
> 
> On 3/15/12 8:19 PM, "Bob Morris" <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.tdwg.org/homepage-news-item/article/lsid-and-guid-applicability
>> -statements-approved/
>> lists http://www.tdwg.org/standards/150/download/ as the location of
>> the approved standards, but those documents indicate that their status
>> is "TDWG Draft Standard"  No doubt those are the drafts that were
>> actually approved, but shouldn't the documents be corrected as to
>> their status?  Also, it would be far nicer if they were downloadable
>> as separate documents. It is clumsy to cite just one of them.
>> 
>> Speaking of citation, what if all approved standards carried a
>> recommended way to cite them?
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
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