Hi All, I think Susie is performing a valuable service which we all respect and which may help to advance the discussion. HOWEVER... ... I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that no-one consider the Bio-RDF call Monday as anything else than a very preliminary discussion FOR INITIAL EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, which needs to be followed up by much more in-depth and authoritative discussions on LSID and other identifier schemes. I am certain that Susie never intended the Monday call to be anything else than that, i.e. a preliminary educational discussion. I recommend that we in HCLS work, after the conclusion of ISMB, to prepare a more inclusive and authoritative discussion on this topic, with all the key players involved. We ought to aim to leverage ALL the good work people have done in this area, LSID in particular. Discussions on this topic that do not include - in a well-organized way - some of the key contributors to the practice of bioinformatics and semantic web, have to be considered non-authoritative and therefore not a basis for making important decisions. Again, I am very sure Susie would share this opinion. This is just a caution to people around the W3C but from outside bioinformatics -- who may not realize how much serious work on distributed identifiers has been done by people who cannot participate in Monday's call -- and whom we very much need to consult. Best Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Clark Director of Research Programs Harvard University Initiative in Innovative Computing 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On SaturdayJul 29, 2006, at 9:25 AM, William Bug wrote: Hi All, |
- Re: LSID lookup details: help? [was: A... Dan Connolly
- Re: LSID lookup details: help? [was: All a... jbarkley
- Re: LSID lookup details: help? [was: A... Dan Connolly
- Re: LSID lookup details: help? [was: A... Benjamin H Szekely
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/URN Dan Connolly
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/URN Sean Martin
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/URN Carole Goble
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/URN Alan Ruttenberg
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... jbarkley
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... William Bug
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Tim Clark
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... kc28
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Carole Goble
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Carole Goble
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/URN Eric Jain
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Benjamin H Szekely
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Eric Jain
- Provenance challenge Carole Goble
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Benjamin H Szekely
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... William Bug
- Re: [BioRDF] All about the LSID URI/UR... Carole Goble