[tdwg] Making LSID links into tags

[Andy Mabbett]

[This is a summary of an idea discussed on the Taxacom mailing list; it
has also been posted on the microformats wiki:
<http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-feedback#UIDs>]


Many links on the TDWG's LSID resolver, for instance those on:

   <http://lsid.tdwg.org/summary/urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:11815>

are marked up thus

        <a href="/summary/urn:lsid:ubio.org:classificationbank:1909656">
           urn:lsid:ubio.org:classificationbank:1909656
        </a>

If TDWG would simply add rel="tag" to all such links, thus:

        <a rel="tag" href="...

then all their pages would be "tagged" with the relevant LSIDs (i.e.
everything to the right of the final slash), using the "rel-tag"
microformat:

        <http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag>

and then people could use those tags to find the equivalent tag on pages
about (in blogs, for example) or pictures of (on, say Flickr) the
organism concerned, thereby adding discoverability, without reducing or
changing any of the current uses of LSIDs.

-- 
Andy Mabbett

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