[tdwg-tag] SourceForge LSID project websites broken - role forTDWG?

[Peter Ansell]

2009/3/31 Gregor Hagedorn <g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/23 Paul Kirk <p.kirk at cabi.org>:
>> In fungi we have MycoBank and citing MB510023 (for Quambalaria coyrecup
>> T. Paap 2008, for humans to read) and having a true GUID (not yet
>> implemented) or LSID (implemented:
>> http://lsid.tdwg.org/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:510023)
>> 'underneath' is closer to the GenBank model which everyone accepts.
>>
>> Paul
>
> Paul,
>
> Who will educate all biologists about the difference between the lsids
> and their use? And I specifically mean the non-taxonomists that use
> species names. In "normal" resources like PDF published articles, html
> species pages, Drupal or Wiki-based information,
> urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:510023 is useful only for human
> display. But it will be used.
>
> http://lsid.tdwg.org/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:510023 will work
> as a clickable link to a web resource and can be read by semantic web
> machine reasoners. But to create this, external knowledge about
> resolution mechanism is expected from every biologist in the world.
> Some help material to be found somewhere may instruct them: if in your
> publication you want to create a link that is usable by humans or
> semantic web machine reasoners, you have to convert the lsid by
> prefixing it with http://lsid.tdwg.org/, http://lsid.gbif.org/, or
> perhaps lsid.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.
>
> The mistrust in http current URL management practices is certainly
> valid. But this is a social issue, not a technical. The mistrust into
> http as a protocol I consider invalid: who is willing to bet that http
> will disappear before urn:lsid? And we would simply introduce resolver
> THEN (p2k5://http.tdwg.org/http://persistent-identifier.indexfungorum.org/names/510023).

I agree. The current Bio2RDF URI's, which look like mini-lsid's by
design, could be resolved using a similar process, ie,
p2k5://http://bio2rdf.org/names:510023 would be just as good a way to
resolve http://bio2rdf.org/names:510023 as
http://bio2rdf.org/urn:lsid:bio2rdf.org:names:510023 would be with the
lsid urn:lsid:bio2rdf.org:names:510023

I have been doing some work on the Bio2RDF LSID resolution process
today and it should be operating properly soon for the
http://bio2rdf.org/urn:lsid:bio2rdf.org:* LSID URI resolutions. They
were a bit neglected, as noone has been using them as far as I know
and hence there were no bug reports to trigger my attention, but since
there is still some interest we should have an alternative interface
for use with LSID systems

Cheers,

Peter Ansell
PhD Student
Queensland University of Technology