Note: The GUID-1 Workshop has already happened.

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GUID-2 Workshop

The e-Science Institute http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/ is going to host the Second International Workshop on Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) for Biodiversity Infromatics (GUID-2), June 10-12, 2006 in Edinburgh Scotland.

GUID-2 is being organised by the Taxonomic Databases Working Group's (TDWG - http://www.tdwg.org) Infrastructure Project. This workshop will review the activity of the Working Groups established at the First GUID Workshop hosted by NESCent in Durham, North Carolina (February 1-3, 2006) and generate final recommendations for establishing an effective infrastructure to support the use of LSIDs in biological informatics.

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Resources

• First call for GUID-2 - First announcement about GUID-2 (7th March, 2006)
• Second call for GUID-2? - Second announcement about GUID-2 (5th April 2006)
• Working Groups
• Draft Agenda
• List of Participants
• GUID-2 Report - PDF Version
• GUID-2 Report Comments

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Working Groups

Five working groups were formed to address significant issues:

• GUIDOutreach
• GUID2WgPartitionOfDataAndOwnership
• GUID2WgCaseForRdf
• GUID2WgSoftwareDevelopment
• GUID2WgCompositeObjects

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Logistics

Logistics for GUID-2 - General instructions to invitees to GUID-2

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Venue

e-Science Institute

e-Science Institute 15 South College Street Edinburgh EH8 9AA United Kingdom

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Goals

• Review the activities of the Working Groups formed at GUID-1
• Final recommendations for establishing an effective infrastructure to support widespread use of LSIDs in biodiversity informatics

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Involvement

''*Invitations to GUID-2 are now closed.*''

We still encourage anyone who is interested in helping to establish a global infrastructure to support the widespread use of LSIDs to get involved (quickly!) with either of the two Working Groups-

• GUID-1 Infrastructure Working Group
• GUID-1 Prototyping Working Group

There are very limited places for GUID-2. Invitations to attend the workshop were based on contributions within the two working groups and representate client agencies. Airfares and expenses will be paid to attend GUID-2 from funding supplied by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (http://www.moore.org/).

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Contact

For all information about the GUID project, please contact Lee Belbin? (TDWG Infrastructure Project Manager).

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Categories

CategoryGUID2?