[Esip-preserve] Fwd: Call for review of GBIF LSID-GUID task group report

[Alice Barkstrom]

As a further note on what I called the "advertisement"
business in the response to the GBIF report.

It makes a big difference in the credibility of a recommendation
that an organization "take leadership" as to the source of
the recommendation.  Since the "recommendation" that
GBIF "take leadership" comes from a document created
by GBIF, that recommendation sounds like a typiical
case of special pleading - no different than claims by
car dealers or health insurance companies.  On the other
hand, a recommendation by, say AGU or the National
Academy of Science, carries a lot more weight.  Inclusion
of the current form of the recommendation diminishes my
view of this report because of the self-interested nature
of the recommendation.

Bruce B.


At 09:39 PM 8/18/2009, Wilson, Bruce E. wrote:
>For information and comment back to GBIF.
>
>
>============================================================
>Bruce E. Wilson (wilsonbe at ornl.gov)
>Environmental Sciences Division
>Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>(office) +1-865-574-6651
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Louise Scharff (GBIF) <lscharff at gbif.org>
>Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:34 AM
>Subject: Call for review of GBIF LSID-GUID task group report
>To: gb.gbif at ig.circa.gbif.net, 
>Garry.Jolley-Rogers at csiro.au, pdevries at wisc.edu, 
>katharina.schleidt at umweltbundesamt.at,
>wlcw at tfri.gov.tw, rschenk at mbl.edu, 
>palanisamyg at ornl.gov, ahampson at usgs.gov, 
>Orrellt at si.edu, deepreef at bishopmuseum.org, 
>Donald.Hobern at csiro.au, jones at nceas.ucsb.edu, 
>hlapp at nescent.org, n.paskin at doi.org
>Cc: "Eamonn O Tuama (GBIF)" <eotuama at gbif.org>, lgtg at lists.gbif.org
>
>
>Dear Participants and Friends of GBIF,
>
>
>
>The LSID-GUID Task Group (LGTG) was convened by GBIF earlier this year
>(http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1243443852) to 
>provide advice on persistent identifiers for 
>biodiversity informatics. The principal 
>objective of the group is to provide 
>recommendations and guidelines on deployment of 
>Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) and other 
>Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) on the GBIF 
>network with particular reference to the 
>potential role of GBIF as a stable, long term 
>provider of GUID resolution services. GBIF 
>recognises that input by Participants is an 
>essential and valuable part of the process both 
>in nominating members of the task group and in 
>providing feedback to output of the task group.
>
>
>
>The LGTG has now released a draft of their 
>report (attached). You are invited to review the 
>draft document and provide feedback to the task 
>group on or before the 7th September. Please 
>send your comments/input directly to the task 
>group mailing list (lgtg at lists.gbif.org) (note:
>you do not need to subscribe to the list).
>
>
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>
>
>(on behalf of the LGTG members)
>
>
>
>Éamonn Ó Tuama
>
>_______________________________________________
>
>Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (eotuama at gbif.org),
>
>Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA),
>
>Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat,
>
>Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK
>Phone:  +45 3532 1494; Fax:  +45 3532 1480
>
>
>
>-----------------------------------
>Louise Scharff
>Programme Assistant
>GBIF Secretariat
>Universitetsparken 15
>DK-2100 Copenhagen
>Denmark
>
>Tel.: +45 35 32 14 84
>Fax: +45 35 32 14 80
>E-mail: lscharff at gbif.org
>URL: www.gbif.org
>
>
>
>
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>National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) UC Santa Barbara
>jones at nceas.ucsb.edu                       Ph: 1-907-523-1960
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