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%META:TOPICINFO{author="GregWhitbread" date="1174562443" format="1.1" version="1.5"}%
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%META:TOPICPARENT{name="AustralasianBiodiversityFederationLsidPolicy"}%
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---++ A policy for LSID implementation, and a roadmap for the integration of this technology, within the Australasian Biodiversity Federation.
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Uniquely identified data objects are fundamental to the successful implementation of our biodiversity information networks.
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Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) are seen as the key to delivering on many of the basic requirements expected of distributed biodiversty information systems. Custodianship; discovery of duplication; effective validation procedures; data update, indexing and caching services; verification of derived product; tracking of annotations etc, ... Much depends on our ability to return to individual records.
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* GUIDs are are permanently associated with their data objects.
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* A GUID system can locate data objects and provide access to object metadata.
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TDWG is recommending LSID as a standard GUID technology for biodiversity informatics objects and aims to formalize usage within our community. To this end the TDWG GUID subgroup has produced an LSID applicability statement and a roadmap for LSID implementation.
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* http://lsid.sourceforge.net/
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* http://www.tdwg.org/subgroups/guid/
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* http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=TdwgLsidApplicabilityStatement
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* http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDRoadmapOct2006
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The TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) is now supporting a workshop in Canberra to establish policy guidelines for the application of LSIDs within the Australasian biodiversity federation and to develop to a roadmap for LSID implementation by, or for, local data providers and biodiversity informatics networks.
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These outcomes and the process by which we achieve them are expected to provide valuable feedback to the TDWG GUID Group and to inform future LSID implementation projects.
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Building on the TDWG LSID Applicability Statement and LSID Roadmap the aims are:
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* To establish key principles for LSID integration;
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* To prioritize LSID assignment;
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* To make recommendations as to the delegation of responsibility for allocation, persistence and resolution of GUIDs and;
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* To document a workplan and timeline for the implementation of GUID technology.
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-- Main.GregWhitbread - 22 Feb 2007 |