TDWG is pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of the
Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) and Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
Applicability Statements. Applicability Statements provide guidance for use of
external standards within the TDWG domain. The GUID statement provides general
recommendations and the LSID one covers the specific GUID currently recommended
by TDWG. Since being officially submitted, the Applicability Statements have
undergone a peer review, a review by the TDWG Executive and multiple revisions.
Open Invitation: We invite all who may contribute and/or consume biodiversity
information to examine this proposed applicability statement during the Public
Review period from 23rd October till at least 23rd November 2009.
How to Participate: You can participate in the review of the GUID-LSID AS in
two ways; either through lodging a comment through TDWG’s Open Journal System,
or you can take the Microsoft Word document and edit it with track changes and
resubmit it to the GUID-LSID AS Wiki space.
You can post comments to the Open Journal System (which may be anonymous) at
http://www.tdwg.org/stdtrack/article/view/150. The abstract is displayed and on
the right hand side of the page is a link to add a comment. Please note: you
must be registered and logged in to the TDWG web site to post a comment,
however registration is free. Down the bottom of the page, there is a link to
download the complete applicability statement.
You can also comment direct in a copy of the document as follows:
· At the previous URL, download a copy of the Microsoft Word format
document.
· Once you have downloaded it, turn on track changes and make your notes
and comments.
· Submit that file at
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/GUIDAndLSIDASReview.
Please DO NOT add any comments to the Wiki page, comment only through the two
methods outlined above.
Questions about the process should be directed to me at
ben(dot)richardson(at)dec.wa.gov.au.
Please share this opportunity for public comment and review with others you
think may be interested.
Acknowledgements: I’d like to thank the authors, the anonymous reviewers and
the members of the Executive Committee for their contribution to the document.
In addition, the guidance of Lee Belbin through the review process has been
invaluable and greatly appreciated.
Links:
· GUID and LSID AS comment area in OJS
http://www.tdwg.org/stdtrack/article/view/150.
· LSID Wiki space:
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/GUIDAndLSIDASReview
· LSID Resolution Project home page: http://lsids.sourceforge.net/
· LSID Specification: http://lsids.sourceforge.net/quick-links/lsid-spec/
Please accept my apology if you’ve received this multiple times from various
mailing lists.
Regards,
Ben Richardson
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