Dear TDWG GUID and TAG members,
The TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) Team is putting forward a proposal to make Life Science Identifiers (LSID) more interoperable with standard World Wide Web and Semantic Web applications. In that proposal we recommend the use of LSID HTTP proxies to simplify the resolution process for tools that do not yet handle LSIDs directly.
The proposal is available at http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/LsidHttpProxyUsageRecommendation
We would like to ask you to please review the proposal and give us feedback. Comments can be added directly to the wiki page above or sent to either the tdwg-tag or tdwg-guid mailing list. I will move the comments from the mailing lists to the wiki page as they become available.
When we reach consensus on the relevance and content of the proposal, we intend to include it on the TDWG LSID Applicability Statement and move forward to ratify it as a TDWG standard.
We really appreciate your feedback.
Best regards,
Ricardo Pereira Roger Hyam Donald Hobern Lee Belbin TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) Team