Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) Links CDL: Archival Resource Key ( http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/ ) Overview of technology Electronic Persistence ...

The importance of Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) for the biodiversity community Executive summary The World Wide Web revolutionized the way in which we broadcast ...

Meeting Minutes An LSID Policy for the Australasian Biodiversity Federation Meeting Participants Bill Barker (State Herbarium of South Australia; Department ...

National Botanic Gardens, Canberra http://www.anbg.gov.au Venue Day 1: April 2 2007 Meetings Room University House Meeting here will ...

Agenda, LSID Policy workshop, Canberra 2 4 April 2007 Monday Meetings Room, House Monday morning check in, Introductions, time to get associated ...

This page will change during the week. Please visit again for up to date information. An LSID policy for Australasian Biodiversity Informatics 1. Some suggested ...

A policy for LSID implementation, and a roadmap for the integration of this technology, within the Australasian Biodiversity Federation. Uniquely identified data objects ...

Andrew Jones Andrew.C.Jones #64;csREMOVE THIS.cardiff.ac.uk

An LSID Policy for the Australasian Biodiversity Federation This project is creating a documented policy for the application of LSIDs in the Australasian biodiversity ...

Background The Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) have received funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore ...

Bibliographic Query Resolver Accepts bibliographic meta data and returns the corresponding GUID (e.g. DOI, LSID) CrossRef offers a variety of possibilities to ...

BioMOBY From BioMOBY web site ( http://www.biomoby.org ): "BioMOBY is an international research project involving biological data hosts, biological data service ...

Category: ARK The ARK category is for pages relating to the use of ARK s as Globally Unique Identifiers. List of all categories:

Category: DOI The DOI category is for pages relating to the use of DOI s as Globally Unique Identifiers. List of all categories:

Category: GUID1 The GUID1 category is for pages related to GUID 1 workshop. List of all categories:

Category: Handle The Handle category is for pages relating to the use of Handle s as Globally Unique Identifiers. List of all categories:

Category: Infrastructure Working Group The Infrastructure Working Group category is for pages related to the working group created during GUID 1 workshop to address ...

Category: LSID The LSID category is for pages relating to the use of LSID s as Globally Unique Identifiers. List of all categories:

Category: PrototypingWG The Prototyping Working Group category is for pages related to the working group formed to coordinate development of test LSID resolvers and ...

Category: Topics This Category will contain links to pages talking about major discussion topics. When creating such pages, be sure to include CategoryTopics at the ...

Category: Use Cases The Use Cases category is for pages describing scenarios for the use of GUIDs. List of all categories:

Category: Users The users category is for pages describing users of this wiki. When refering to people, try and use their wiki names so that the references become ...

Category: Working Group The Working Group category is for pages related to any of the working group created during the GUID 1 workshop. List of all categories:

Central SRV Record Service Central SRV record service as an aid to LSID resolution Three problems were identified that could be mitigated by the use of a central ...

Name Contact details: Charles Hussey Library Information Services, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD United Kingdom Tel. 44 (0)207 942 ...

Chuck Miller's Page Chuck Miller Chief Information Officer Missouri Botanical Garden Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Categories CategoryUsers

As discussed on WhyWeShouldNotUseLSIDs and LsidHttpProxyUsageRecommendation, the use of LSIDs, being a special community technology requires special custom software ...

Fundamental GUIDs: Conceptual as well as digital Coordinator(s): Richard Pyle Participants: Charles Hussey, AndrewCJones, BobMorris, YdeDeJong Description GUIDs ...

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) Links Digital Object Identifier System ( http://www.doi.org/ ) Main site run by International DOI Foundation (IDF) ...

Dag Terje Filip Endresen I am and walked my childhood days in http://www.arendal.com/ Arendal located in the south of Norway. I received my university training ...

Dr Dave Watts DBA/Applications Developer Australian Antarctic Data Centre 203 Channel Highway Kingston, Tasmania, Australia http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid ...

This page is a pretty straight dump of a brief flurry on the GBIF GUID list on 26 Jan 2006 the initial discussions on GUIDs for descriptive data. It's probably best ...

Use Case: Detecting Duplicates Description There are many situations in which data relating to a single specimen may be made available through multiple online data ...

Donald Hobern Address Donald Hobern Programme Officer for Data Access and Database Interoperability Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat Universitetsparken ...

SEEK EcoGrid The EcoGrid is a Grid service based architecture for accessing heterogeneous data resources in the ecological, biodiversity, and geological sciences ...

Existing Projects The following projects have already been experimenting with GUIDs or have a working solution in place. Projects using LSIDs BioMOBY ...

Use Case: Finding Data Description There is a huge amount of 'taxon related' data already available. Eg. the WDC MARE holds thousands of data sets which are e.g ...

Use Case: Finding Literature Description The majority of scientific journals now additionally offer electronical versions (pdf, html) of journal articles or ...

Use Case: Finding Specimens Description This is the most basic use case for GUIDs relating to biological specimens or field observations. Some example scenarios ...

Reimbursement Procedures The GBIF travel reimbursement system is easy to use and is based around guidelines at http://www.gbif.org/Support/travel, and an associated ...

GUID 1 Workshop Draft Agenda This page is obsolete GUID 1 workshop is over! Day 1: Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 7:00 AM Breakfast (at the hotel) 7:45 AM ...

GUID 1 Homework This page is obsolete GUID 1 workshop is over! To make most out of our first workshop, we require each participant to read some documents and ...

GUID 1 Workshop Logistics This page is obsolete GUID 1 workshop is over! Transportation to the hotel Airport Transportation: When you arrive at the Raleigh ...

GUID 1 Workshop Minutes and Presentations This page contains the full set of materials presented during the GUID 1 Workshop as well as the minutes of the sessions ...

GUID 1 Workshop Participants "" ParticipantInstitutionCountry Andrew Jones Catalogue of Life UK ...

GUID1 Plenary Session Minutes This are the minutes for the plenary session on Feb 1, 2006, in telegraphic format. Feel free to expand it. Cliff Cunningham Presentation ...

GUID 1 Workshop Report Introduction The Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) completed their first Workshop ...

GUID 1 Workshop Report Comments Please use this page to provide any comments on the report from the first GUID Workshop. Morris' original post on http://wiki.cs.umb ...

Note: The GUID 1 Workshop has already happened. GUID 1 Workshop NESCent is hosting the First International Workshop on Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) for ...

Preliminary Agenda for GUID 2 Workshop Time Item Notes Saturday 10 June LSID Technology lessons learned 09:00 09:05 Welcome ...

Final Issues for GUID 2 The second GUID workshop will take place in just over three weeks time and we need to make sure that we are prepared to discuss and resolve ...

First Announcement for GUID 2 Workshop Background The First Workshop on Globally Unique Identifiers for Biodiversity Informatics (GUID 1) was held last month at ...

Second announcement for GUID 2 Workshop Hi Folks The second GUID workshop is going to be hosted by eSI in Edinburgh June 10 12. As the details emerge, I'll add them ...

Logistics for GUID 2 Registration Registration is open to invitees at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/682/. If you have been invited, please register NOW. If you ...

Attendance List for GUID 2 Workshop Andrew Polaszek (ICZN: Sunday: Chair Day 2) Ben Szekeley Bob Morris Charles Copp (Technical Writer) Chuck Miller (Tropicos: Chair ...

GUID 2 Report Second International Workshop on Globally Unique Identifiers for Biodiversity Informatics (GUID 2) 10th 12th June 2006 e Science Institute, Edinburgh ...

Comments on GUID 2 Report Please enter your comments to the GUID2Report below. Don't forget to sign and date them. Thank you!

The case for RDF This will get turned into a proper case later by SallyHinchcliffe Problems with XML versioning, difficulty of importing other schema elements, ...

Composite objects such as taxonomic descriptions, images, and raw XML which may live in databases have some of their parts mutable and some immutable. It is complicated ...

"" Move what? Solution Implications/Issues Examples Entire Collection Move authority Institution Name in ...

LSID Software Development This break out group identified outstanding issues that need to be addressed regarding LSID software in the short term. This work was based ...

Note: The GUID 1 Workshop has already happened. GUID 2 Workshop The e Science Institute http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/ is going to host the Second International ...

GUID Annotation and Link Out Mechanisms Coordinator(s): Participants: Description DonaldHobern 2006 04 21: Basically the question is whether we should adopt ...

Central GUID Registration Authority Coordinator(s): DonaldHobern Participants: Description This group will investigate the need for a central LSID registration ...

Orphan Data and Datasets Coordinator(s): DonaldHobern Participants: Description This group will investigate the need for a repository to host orphan data or ...

GUID Outreach Coordinator(s): Lee Belbin Participants: Richard Pyle, Ben Szekely, Rod Page Description To coordinate the development of documentation for outreach ...

This page is out of date!! RicardoPereira 02/Mar/2006 GUID Requirements Specific to Specimens and Collections Requirements: Metadata must identify different ...

This page is out of date!! RicardoPereira 02/Mar/2006 Requirements specific to Taxonomic Names and Concepts Pending deeper review of use cases and mailing ...

GUID Use Cases Biological Specimens One of the key drivers for GBIF and TDWG to develop a GUID solution is the need to be able to refer reliably to specimens held ...

Topic 2: GUIDs for Collections and Specimens DonaldHobern on mailing list: Identifiers to assist with management of collection data have been at the centre of TDWG ...

GUIDs for Descriptive Data This topic will explore the use of GUIDs for descriptive data. Descriptive data nominally include the following: Morphological Descriptions ...

GUIDs for Germplasm I have collected here some links as an entry to this GUID wiki for the Germplasm community. I hope to start a discussion on how to implemet the ...

TRAVEL REPORT This is my travel report from the GUID 1 meeting. 1. Submitted by: Dag T. F. Endresen 2. Country visited: USA 3. Dates of travel: 31/01/2006 to 06/02 ...

Topic 3: GUIDs for Taxon Names and Taxon Concepts DonaldHobern on mailing list: Another key area in which TDWG has recognised the need for globally unique identifiers ...

GUIDs for Zoological Names (in ZooBank) Extracted from discussion in the mailing list: Due to fundamental differences in how zoologists and botanists think of taxon ...

Multiple Data Providers for Germplasm Specimen/object illustrated as a clone of an apple cultivar. The physical object and metadata on Germplasm can be provided ...

Germplasm accession identificators The plant germplasm can be conserved as seed samples, clones maintained in situ or in vivo , cry preseved etc. by genebank institutes ...

GUID Glossary Here is a list of terms that are used (or have been created) by our community, i.e., those trying to standardize the use of globally unique identifiers ...

Greg Riccardi is a Professor in the College of Information at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. He is a principal in the MorphBank project ...

Handles Links Handle System ( http://www.handle.net/ ) Main site run by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives What is a Handle? From http ...

You are looking for the TDWG GUID wiki homepage.

How to participate 1. Provide input to the survey of requirements through one of the following: a. Add comments or edit pages in this Wiki. b. ...

SallyHinchcliffe on mailing list: Kew Botanical Garndens GUIDs for specimens This is a combined response looking at our Herbarium catalogue, Seed Bank, Living ...

ChuckMiller on mailing list: I am responding to Donald's questions as they apply at Missouri Botanical Garden. As several have described, there are multiple layers ...

DonaldHobern on mailing list (in reply to IdentifiersAtMOBOT): Thanks, Chuck for this detailed response. You are quite right that we need to be clear what we mean ...

Comment from John Wieczorek (TucoTuco, 2005 10 21 18:02:21): Following are answers from the perspective of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to the specific questions ...

Germplasm identifiers Reply to Donalds questions on the use of identifiers in the germplasm domain with examples from the Gene Bank (NGB). Germplasm is used here to ...

Use Case: Identifiying Different Specimen Preparations Description Different communities within biological collections have different sets of biological objects ...

Identifylife The Identifylife project has three main goals to allow the sharing of resources for building interactive keys to provide a platform for creating ...

Use Case: Identifiying Datasets Used in Analyses or Publications Description Primary biodiversity data are used in a variety of applications, such as taxonomic ...

Use Case: Identifying Taxonomy For Identifications Description Any data resource which holds information related to biological taxa should be able to identify not ...

Index Fungorum Index Fungorum has a prototype LSID system for fungal names and nomenclature. Contact: Dr Paul M. Kirk Biosystematist CABI Bioscience Bakeham Lane ...

The Info URI Specification The "info" URI specification is being proposed as another uri standard for identification. The library community has proposed the RFC behind ...

The Infrastructure Working Group This group was formed to address the key issues regarding the deployment of LSID as the GUID technology for biodiversity informatics ...

IT and Production Manager Andes Amazon Biodiversity Program www.andesamazon.org Botanical Research Institue of Texas www.brit.org Project Manager, Atrium Biodiversity ...

Kepler The scientific workflow system is an analysis and modeling environment for composing and executing complex scientific models in a reproducable, visual programming ...

Kevin Richards Software Developer Landcare Research New Zealand Address Kevin Richards Landcare Research P.O. Box 40 Lincoln New Zealand Phone 64 3 3256701 ext 3884 ...

Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) Links Resolution Protocol Project ( http://lsid.sourceforge.net/ ) Main site for development of LSID protocol What is ...

LSID Based Integration Ants Demonstration Coordinator(s): Rod Page Participants: Description The original description was: "This group will develop a prototype ...

LSID Conformance Testing Coordinator(s): Ricardo Pereira (so far) Participants: Roger Hyam, Donald Hobern, Bob Morris, Roderic Page. Description This (tentative ...

LSID Extension for Firefox The extension for FireFox enables resolution of lsidres URIs. The lsidres protocol is used by IBM's LaunchPad for Life Sciencer Identifiers ...

Long term Archival of LSIDs and Associated Data and Metadata Coordinator(s): Participants: Description This group will investigate long term archival of LSIDs ...

Minimal Standards for LSID Issuing Coordinator(s): DonaldHobern Participants: Description This group will specify the miminal requirements for LSID issuance ...

Test LSID Resolver for Catalogue of Life data DonaldHobern, 24 Feb 2006: Tim Robertson, working as a developer on the new GBIF Data Portal, has set up a test implementation ...

LSID Resolver for Analytical Models Coordinator(s): Matt Jones Participants: Matt Jones, Chad Berkley, and the Kepler team Description This group will make available ...

LSID Resolver for Character Data Coordinator(s): Kevin Thiele, Damian Barnier Participants: BobMorris Description This group will develop a prototype LSID resolver ...

LSID Resolver for Images Coordinator(s) : BobMorris Participants : Hui Dong, Greg Riccardi HuiDong did the resolver service. All entries here are by BobMorris unless ...

LSID Resolver for Observations Coordinator(s): Matt Jones Participants: Matt Jones, others needed! Description This group will develop a prototype LSID resolver ...

LSID Resolver for Specimens Coordinator(s): Steve Perry. Participants: Steve Perry, Robert Gales, Dave Vieglais Description This group will develop a prototype ...

This page is obsolete. Go back to PrototypingWorkingGroup to find the LSID resolver prototype you are looking for.

This page is obsolete. Go back to PrototypingWorkingGroup to find the LSID resolver prototype you are looking for.

LSID Resolver for Taxon Names (IF) Coordinator(s): Paul Kirk, Kevin Richards. Participants: Paul Kirk, Kevin Richards, Roger Hyam. See the other taxon name LSID ...

Sorry, this page has a typo in its wiki name. You are probably looking for the LSIDResolverForTaxonNamesIPNI page. RicardoScachettiPereira 24 Feb 2006

LSID Resolver for Taxon Names (IPNI) Coordinator(s): Roger Hyam, Sally Hinchcliffe Participants: Nicky Nicolson See the other taxon name LSID resolver prototype ...

LSID Resolver for Taxon Names (UBio) Responsible Person: Patrick Leary (Computer Programmer) Participants: Charles Hussey Description uBio (http://www.ubio.org ...

Morphbank LSID Resolver Coordinator(s): GregRiccardi Participants: Description This group has developed an LSID resolver for Morphbank images. A typical LSID ...

LSID Resolver Namespaces Coordinator(s): DonaldHobern Participants: KevinRichards Description This group will develop best practices for assigning resolver authority ...

TDWG Standards LSID Resolver Coordinator(s): Ricardo Pereira Participants: Roger Hyam Description We have set up an LSID authority to resolve LSIDs for TDWG ...

Benchmarks for TDWG Standards LSID Resolver Results Summary Low Load Medium Load High Load Plain CGI 624 ms 3168 ms N/A Mod Perl 24 ...

ModPerl Setup (high load) Description: Evaluated response times of resolver using ab (ApacheBench) This setup is using plain CGI. Major improvements ...

Plain CGI Setup (low load) Description: Evaluated response times of resolver using ab (ApacheBench) This setup is using plain CGI. Major improvements ...

ModPerl Setup (low load) Description: Evaluated response times of resolver using ab (ApacheBench) This setup is using mod perl. Total Requests ...

Plain CGI Setup (medium load) Description: Evaluated response times of resolver using ab (ApacheBench) This setup is using plain CGI. Major improvements ...

ModPerl Setup (medium load) Description: Evaluated response times of resolver using ab (ApacheBench) This setup is using plain CGI. Major improvements ...

LSID Roadmap Oct 2006 through June 2007 This roadmap describes the priorities of the TDWG GUID Group for the next 6 to 9 months regarding LSID work. See the latest ...

LSID Scalability Testing Coordinator(s): Participants: Description This group will perform scalability tests with LSID resolvers. Technical Information ...

SEEK Taxon Resolution Server Coordinator(s): Participants: Description This group will make available a TCS server based on SEEK/Taxon prototype. Technical ...

LSID Software Gap Analysis Coordinator(s): Ricardo Pereira Participants: Description This group will perform gap analysis of LSID software. We will make an ...

LSID Specification Review Coordinator(s): Ricardo Pereira Participants: Description This group will review the current LSID specification to identify possible ...

North Temperate Lakes LTER LSID Authority From Temperate Lakes LDID Authority Website: "The first public LSID resolution server. This LSID authority is made possible ...

Landcare Research Taxonomic Databases Currently implementing LSIDs as a resolvable GUID on a Microsoft .NET platform. I.e. a Microsoft .NET version of the current ...

TDWG !LSID Applicability Statement Request for Comments from Oct/2006 (now obsolete) Notice: This Request for Comments is now obsolete . A new Request for Comments ...

TDWG !LSID Applicability Statement Request for Comments (Sept/2007 current) The Infrastructure Project (TIP) has been working on a new draft of the TDWG !LSID ...

LSID HTTP Proxy Usage Recommendations Recommendations to make LSID more interoperable with the World Wide Web and the Semantic Web While independence of protocol ...

Inventory of LSID Software Here we present a brief inventory of existing LSID software. Feel free to add new entries, add information to existing entries, or to make ...

Use Case: Managing Controlled Vocabularies Description GUIDs may provide a mechanism for managing the expected sets of possible values for different elements within ...

Matt Jones Name and contact details Matt Jones National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis University of California, Santa Barbara jones ...

For the Nala Demo design project see NalaDesign

Nala Demo Design and Development Plan We begin with a preliminary discussion of the components we will use. We also discuss why we are not using alternatives such ...

Why we Need Names as Objects Some of this is based on a presentation I gave at the EoL Nomina 1 meeting on Crete Spring '07. It is inspired as a rebuttal of UsageInstanceProposal ...

Names for Life The Names for Life project is developing a model for assigning DOIs to prokaryotic taxa as a test case, with the aim of future proofing biological nomenclature ...