I sent an email the other day expressing my interest in this workshop, but it didn't seem to go through to the list. In the meantime, I created a wiki page with the answers to your questions about why I am interested at:
http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=MattJones
I also added descriptions of GUID issues for the SEEK EcoGrid and Kepler projects and some details about the TCS. I also will eventually add in information about use of LSIDs in the SEEK Taxonomic Object Server (TOS) that complements the TCS work.
http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=ExistingProjects
I guess my first question is to what extent GBIF and the members of this list think that this discussion should include use cases outside specimen collections? Much of my work with LSIDs has been focused on archiving field observations and experiments done by ecologists and environmental biologists. It seems like this should be in scope for GBIF, but thus far the limited discussion on this list has focused on specimen collections and taxonomic nomenclature/concept issues. Should we broaden it?
Thanks, and looking forward to the discussion.
Matt -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matt Jones jones@nceas.ucsb.edu National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) UC Santa Barbara http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~