Recently 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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Resolving LSIDs with URL resolvers and CouchDB