26-Oct-2009 GUID and LSID Applicability Statements - Public Review

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...

14-Apr-2008 NC State University Insect Museum Implements LSIDs

The Insect Museum of NC State University has now implemented LSIDs for their collections with help from Roger Hyam, see blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/insects.

To quote the announcement-

"What does...

19-Feb-2008 Short note on LSID Tester tool published

A short note on Rod Page's LSID Tester tool has been published in the Open Access journal Source Code for Biology and Medicine. The DOI is doi:10.1186/1751-0473-3-2 and the direct link is www.scfbm.org/content/3/1/2/....

15-Feb-2008 LSID Authority Setup Guides

The TDWG Secretariat and the TDWG Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) Task Group announce the availability of the LSID Authority Setup Guides- www.tdwg.org/activities/guid/documents/lsid-setup-guides/ These guides were...

29-Jan-2008 The Nordic LSID e-infrastructure is starting

The aim is to generate or retrieve LSIDs for all organisms in the region.  The work will start on from Lepidoptera for which three different taxonomies are currently being used in the region, and thus data integration by...