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...

08-Oct-2007 CATE LSID Resolution Service is live

The CATE project (Creating A Taxonomic e-Science) is a UK NERC-funded research project to create taxonomic web-revisions. The latest release includes an LSID Resolution Service (undertaken as part of a contract with GBIF). The...

03-Sep-2007 Request for Comment on TDWG LSID Applicability Statement

The TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) has been working on a new draft of the TDWG LSID Applicability Statement. This document-

provides guidance on how to use Life Sciences Identifiers (LSID) to meet specific requirements of...