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Resolving LSIDs with URL resolvers and CouchDB

April 29, 2009 – 8:29 am

346483297_c4cb93ab4e_mRecently I’ve been looking at ways to solve some of biodiversities’ long standing issues with LSIDs, which are, “Life Science Identifiers are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. Essentially, an LSID is a unique identifier for some data, and the LSID protocol specifies a standard way to locate the data (as well as a standard way of describing that data). They are a little like DOIs used by many publishers.“  I posted my thoughts to the TDWG discussion mailing list on the topic, and am reprinting it here to allow for further community commentary; Code4lib, I’m looking at you. While much of it is theoretical, it is doable, and if it covers all that needs to be addressed, would be a cool, sustainable way forward for link resolvers for all kinds of usage.

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HOWTO: install Ruby on Rails on Debian or Ubuntu Linux easily

October 29, 2008 – 5:07 pm

In the early days of this blog I used to run it on Typo, which *was* a great Ruby on Rails blogging platform (at one time).  Unfortunately the project stalled (for years) and I ended up jumping ship after a few months of bugs and the ever crashing Rails server, WEBrick.  Yes, if you search Netcraft you could see that was my *exposed* server at the time…not good! ;)   Now if you look, Typo is still kicking, and it *may* be a solid platform now, I hope it is, as I even contributed a ton of the achieved themes that live on in the ‘Theme Garden’ there.  But on I moved into the world of MySQL/PHP front end sites via great apps like Drupal and WordPress, fast forward, Ruby on Rails is a mature platform now, and I am evaluating webapps at work, so I needed to install Rails on Debian GNU/Linux (but of course these directions would work just as well in Ubuntu Linux.  It’s amazing simple, I took some steps from the Ruby on Rails wiki, first install the dependencies for good measure:

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