Dear tdwg-guid subscribers,

A new website has been established at http://lsids.sf.net as the new entry point for the development of new LSID software and documentation.

The new website is at a different location from the previous Sourceforge site (lsid.sf.net) as IBM has ceased to support this site. We have added a trailing 's' for specification or software, while the original site is now for reference.

The new website includes

* An introduction to LSID and links to more detailed documentation for those not familiar with the identification scheme and its resolution protocol * Links to LSID resources, such as LSID software releases and downloads, Rod Page's LSID authority tester, the TDWG LSID on-line resolver, version control system and mail lists * Regularly updated news entries about LSID software, newly deployed authorities and related information (available as an RSS feed) * The LSID plug-in for the Firefox browser that enables it to resolve LSIDs using the lsidres: protocol handler.

A new SourceForge developers website at http://www.sf.net/projects/lsids is supported by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG - www.tdwg.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF - www.gbif.org) and volunteers. This site features-

* A new release of the LSID Browser for Firefox (v1.0.1) which is available for download * A new LSID source code repository and version control system using Subversion (SVN)

The old developers website (http://www.sf.net/projects/lsid) will maintain:

* All previous major releases of LSID software (such as the client and server software stacks in Java and Perl), * The CVS source code repository with all history of LSID software development (only for reference, as all new development must use the new SVN repository) * The issue tracker, and * The lsid-developer mailing list.

We hope that the new LSID websites will be effective. Questions or suggestions are welcomed.

Best regards,

Ricardo Pereira Systems Administrator and Software Engineer Biodiversity Information Systems - TDWG