Hi

I have an idea for the challenge, that is a result of recent discussions on LSIDs and my experimenting with a hosting service web site.

I have created a prototype web site that allows you to create LSID Authorities and LSIDs for those authorities, and point the resolution to a static url for the LSID metadata and data. This allows people who cannot set up their own LSID resolver, but do have biodiversity data resources available on the web, to use the service as the LSID resolution mechanism.

What next?

Kevin Richards

Greetings,

I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for here but we have an existing system that provides; data collection, storage, management, mapping, modeling, and dissemination for invasive species data, all over the Internet for anyone to use (most users are land managers and invasive species researchers). We are integrating it with the Global Invasive Species Information Network to provide a global system. We've been in research and development for years and are now deploying the system with citizen scientists. The next big challenge we have is making GISIN widely available to a diverse group of data managers.

One item we really need is an LSID server to uniquely identify all records in the GISIN system - could we tie this together with Kevin's server as a challenge?

Jim Graham
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
USA

Greetings,

I googled and found for me important and interesting knowledge using <Jim Graham Colorado> as the keyword:

http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/people/pe ... ain_ID=205
http://www.tamarixmap.org/cwis438/websi ... ebSiteID=2
http://www.niiss.org/cwis438/websites/n ... ebSiteID=1

What is lacking on your sites and links is a fast and easy way to identify species by observable characteristics. NatureGate® uses a patented method and system for object (species included) identification: http://www.naturegate.net

IUCN writes: http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/cec/?2614/

The Finnish Institute of Environment (SYKE), and Ministry of Environment: http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=5319&lan=en

Our NatureGate® mapping and uploading systems are in the testing phase and hopefully operational in the beginning of June during the conference.

I hope to meet you and other experts, who enjoy outdoor life, in the Conference, because for them NatureGate approach is a perfect solution.

Best regards,

Mauri

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Dr. Mauri Ahlberg FLS
Professor of Biology and Sustainability Education
University of Helsinki, FINLAND

Kevin and Jim:

Jim, are we talking about LSIDs for the records, or for the species that they describe? If the latter, is it the case that most GISIN records have LSIDs for the species, and that you need a reliable resolver for them? Or is it the case that most records don't have LSIDs for the species, even though, presumably, they exist? Or is it the case that in some cases the species LSIDs do not yet exist?

I think addressing any of the above cases would make a good challenge entry.
One approach would be to do as much of the work as possible before the conference, and to then demonstrate its utility during the conference. Another would be to automate the process of disambiguation and LSID assignment, and then run the workflow during the conference. I'm sure there are other exciting things we could do.



Joel.

That's true. When we created European Alien Species database (~11 000 species, ~50 introduction events) I intended adding species LSIDs into the database, but unfortunately for a relatively big number of species LSIDS do not exist yet.