Ben, Thank you very much for sharing the outline of your presentation with us. It certainly seems ideal for our purposes. We would be very interested in picking your brains on wider semantic interoperability issues during the workshop. Regarding LSIDs specifically, our biggest challange is to find an appropriate way to define stable byte-identical data for our objects. We have therefore been thinking mostly of turning everything to metadata. We would be very interested in knowing what your thoughts are regarding that issue. Best regards, Ricardo Benjamin H Szekely wrote:

Hi All, Thank you again for including me in your workshop. From reading Rod's paper and many of the following comments, it seems that this community is certainly on the right track and shares a similar vision for LSIDs and metadata to that of our development team here in Cambridge, MA. I encourage anybody to ask questions on the list about LSID or Semantic Web technology in general. Our team has been elbow deep in the Semantic Web for 3 years and have been working on a wide variety of projects outside of LSID including Storage and replication, annotation, workflow, and RDF-based user interfaces,

I am tentatively planning to organize my talk as follows:

- Overview of LSID (10-15 minutes)

- Survey of global LSID participation (10-15 minutes)

- Brief overview of IBM Cambridge Semantic Web projects (5 minutes)

I am certainly open to reorganization. I'm not planning on discussing too many technical and implementation details, but I'd be happy to discuss these throughout the week at the workshop.

- Ben