Re: [tdwg-content] Idea for Discussion, Differentiating between "type's" of identifiers

I second this.

One of the advantages of GUIDs over normal, domain and scope specific identifiers is that they work independently of rules. The TDWG-LSID to resolvable, semantic web compliant http-URI rules partly break this, requiring knowledge about http to LSID to http conversions, and in which situation which form would be the canonical form.

A pattern supporting resolvable, sw-compliant identifiers in parallel to LSIDs itself avoids this.

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