Rod page wrote:
<snip> 1. It's perfectly acceptable for the public face of a major biodiversity informatics project to be broken in a way that makes us look amateurish. </snip>
At the e-Biosphere open discussion session, I reported an interesting and unfortunately not totally uncommon experience with major biodiversity informatics sens. lat, that several were either broken (e.g. OBIS searches for common taxa) or returned incomplete, or over-complete (correct + incorrect) data, and nobody seemed to care at this point. I guess it's just not mission-critical enough for anyone who does care??
Regards - Tony
Tony Rees Manager, Divisional Data Centre, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Ph: 0362 325318 (Int: +61 362 325318) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony.Rees@csiro.au Manager, OBIS Australia regional node, http://www.obis.org.au/ Biodiversity informatics research activities: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/biodiversity.htm Personal info: http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Roderic Page Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2009 4:51 PM To: Technical Architecture Groupmailing list Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] LSID Sourceforge URL & LSID Best Practices
OK, the message I'm getting is that:
1. It's perfectly acceptable for the public face of a major biodiversity informatics project to be broken in a way that makes us look amateurish.
2. TDWG must guarantee universal analysis at all times (even thought China may, on a whim, ban access to any site it choses).
3. That TDWG is already using Google Code for Darwin Core (http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/ ) is, of course, irrelevant to this discussion, as is the fact that Google Code seems fine for GBIF (http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/ ) and EOL (http://code.google.com/p/eol-website/ ) projects.
4. Nobody thought these issues were important when the original project was set up on SourceForge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge ).
5. That Greg Whitbread's puns are appalling.
I'm clearly too worked up about this, but all I'm looking for is a simple fix to a simple problem. Instead, we're off on some tangent about incorporation, instead of actually dealing with the issue at hand. Perhaps I shouldn't get too bothered, and take this discussion as tacit agreement that LSIDs are doomed anyway.
Regards
Rod
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