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

[Gregor Hagedorn]

I agree with Roger about the technical side. LSIDs are largely for
insiders with good IT support, preferably building their software
themselves. In a way, there is a social business model associated with
LSIDs: keep it a small and thus perhaps better manageable community.
However this comes at the cost of excluding many initiatives,
especially those relying on unmodified or only slightly modified
standard software.

>>>From biologists-social standpoint I would argue that:

  urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8BDC0735-FEA4-4298-83FA-D04F67C3FBEC

is far harder than this:

http://purl.zoobank.org/8BDC0735-FEA4-4298-83FA-D04F67C3FBEC

which, socially, and for people who might want to cite identifiers in
paper or PDF form, is harder than this:

  http://persistent-id.zoobank.org/8BDC0735-FEA4-4298-83FA-D04F67C3FBEC
or
  http://persistent-identifier.zoobank.org/8BDC0735-FEA4-4298-83FA-D04F67C3FBEC

I just try argue to speak to the communities outside of the inner
technological circle, rather than saving a few characters.

These people may also be the managers, making it clear that this class
of URLs need to be managed over longer time periods.

Gregor