Lots to discuss here ... It's an interesting start but I can see lots of issues to thrash out, particularly how things like KR (wearing my Kew Bibliographic Databases hat on) could link to the scheme...
Neil - are you coming to the GUIDS meeting in Edinburgh? Sally
After my post yesterday, Neil Thomson forwarded me this paper he has prepared for the Biodiversity Heritage Library on their need for GUIDs. His document ends by explaining how BHL identifiers could end up looking "a bit like an LSID". Obviously I would recommend that they should actually just be LSIDs, but Neil is interested in any feedback on this paper and it clearly relates very much to all that we discussed under the general heading of "Publication Bank".
Thanks,
Donald
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