Hi,

We've been working on an LSID resolver prototype for observational data that is described using Ecological Metadata Language. During the last GUID meeting I said I would work on this, and we have made some progress, although the demo is currently without data (we'll fix that soon over the next few days). The resolver is located at "esa.org", and the data that has LSIDs can be found using the web interface at http://data.esa.org. Wait a couple of days for us to populate the server with data and the demo will be more interesting. We'll eventually also install this demo on our KNB network (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org), which currently contains over 5000 observational datasets and their associated EML metadata.

I've described some of our work, including various existing bugs in our resolver, on the GUID wiki here:

http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDResolverForObservations

I won't be able to make the next GUID meeting, but I am hoping to stay involved with this project as it evolves.

Cheers, Matt

PS Rods LSID tester has been very useful in showing that we still have a number of bugs in our resolver, especially with our SOAP methods. Thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matt Jones Ph: 907-789-0496 jones@nceas.ucsb.edu SIP #: 1-747-626-7082 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) UC Santa Barbara http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~