[tdwg-guid] LSID Authority Setup Guides
Dear list subscribers,
The TDWG Secretariat and the TDWG Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) Task Group announce the availability of the LSID Authority Setup Guides-
http://www.tdwg.org/activities/guid/documents/lsid-setup-guides/
These guides were written by Richard Pyle, Kevin Richards and myself to help system administrators avoid common pitfalls in setting up their own LSID authorities. We hope that they will be useful to those interested in assigning LSIDs to their biodiversity information data records. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Ricardo Pereira Software Engineer TDWG Globally Unique Identifiers Task Group
LSID still is not in the IANA URN namespace registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces so from a standards perspective LSID is rogue.
The process for applying is straightforward (see RFC 2611). I3C should have done this but never did. I suggest that someone who cares about LSIDs should just submit the application and be done with it. From my limited perspective it appears that TDWG might be in an ideal position to do this: technical savvy, organizational stability, a driving need...
Jonathan
Is there a (mostly) complete listing of active LSID Authorities? The LSID website includes these:
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Authority UBio Authority Index Fungorum Authority University of Wisconsin CFL
...and I can add to that the ZooBank Authority and the Bishop Museum Natural Sciences Authority; but I am sure there are more active LSID Authorities than these (e.g., Landcare NZ).
Is there a complete listing available somewhere?
Thanks, Rich
Hi Richard
I suppose that is the drawback of the LSID decentralised approach. Ricardo (and probably Kevin) will know of most, but very unlikely to be all. Maybe we should setup a simple registration record on the TDWG site. We could then send out an annual email far and wide to get updates. Meanwhile, we could just have a static list from the GUID pages (called lsidauthorites)?
Cheers
Lee
Lee Belbin TDWG Secretariat
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-guid-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-guid-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2008 1:02 PM To: 'Ricardo Scachetti Pereira'; tdwg-guid@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-guid] Active LSID Authorities
Is there a (mostly) complete listing of active LSID Authorities? The LSID website includes these:
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Authority UBio Authority Index Fungorum Authority University of Wisconsin CFL
...and I can add to that the ZooBank Authority and the Bishop Museum Natural Sciences Authority; but I am sure there are more active LSID Authorities than these (e.g., Landcare NZ).
Is there a complete listing available somewhere?
Thanks, Rich
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This was part of my concern that I mentioned a few months ago about the current status of LSID resolvers that we have set up in the TDWG community.
Perhaps we need a task for the GUID/TAG interest group to have completed the list of these relevant LSID authorities and have them on the Wiki by the next meeting? We should at least attempt to get the resolvers that we are "responsible" for ourseleves, on the wiki. And an agenda item at the TAG subroup meeting, if there is going to be one? Roger?
Kevin
"Lee Belbin" leebel@netspace.net.au 16/02/2008 6:05 p.m. >>>
Hi Richard
I suppose that is the drawback of the LSID decentralised approach. Ricardo (and probably Kevin) will know of most, but very unlikely to be all. Maybe we should setup a simple registration record on the TDWG site. We could then send out an annual email far and wide to get updates. Meanwhile, we could just have a static list from the GUID pages (called lsidauthorites)?
Cheers
Lee
Lee Belbin TDWG Secretariat
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-guid-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-guid-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2008 1:02 PM To: 'Ricardo Scachetti Pereira'; tdwg-guid@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-guid] Active LSID Authorities
Is there a (mostly) complete listing of active LSID Authorities? The LSID website includes these:
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Authority UBio Authority Index Fungorum Authority University of Wisconsin CFL
...and I can add to that the ZooBank Authority and the Bishop Museum Natural Sciences Authority; but I am sure there are more active LSID Authorities than these (e.g., Landcare NZ).
Is there a complete listing available somewhere?
Thanks, Rich
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Jonathan Rees -
Kevin Richards -
Lee Belbin -
Ricardo Scachetti Pereira -
Richard Pyle