1. TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID) Donald Hobern - Ricardo Pereira TDWG Executive Meeting June 1-2, 2006 - Madrid, Spain

2. GUID-1 Workshop NESCent, Durham, NC, USA on Feb 1-3, 2006 Gathered a representative cross-section of domain experts from around the world Adoption of LSID as GUID technology –Dynamic nature of LSID assignment and resolution –LSID cost supported by individual agents (in-kind) –Open nature of LSID protocol and software –Existing (tested) LSID infrastructure Two working groups formed to address outstanding issues and to develop prototypes

3. GUID Infrastructure Working Group Minimal standards for issuing LSIDs Long-term archival of identifiers Link-out and 3rd party annotation mechanisms PublicationBank Outreach

4. GUID Prototyping Working Group Names (IF, IPNI, UBio, CoL) Specimens (using DiGIR2) Observations and analytical models (SEEK) Character data (IdentifyLife) Images (Bob Morris, MorphBank) TDWG standards LSID Software gap analysis & spec review

5. GUID-2 Workshop June 10-12, e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK Agenda: –Architectural requirements from TAG –Reports on LSID prototypes –Survey of existing LSID software –Additional LSID network components –Domain-specific requirements –Applicability statements and best practices –Review, summary and conclusions

6. TAG-1 Meeting Devising an overarching architecture for data sharing Based on a network of identifiable objects –Described by metadata Emphasis on hole of GUIDs in the architecture –Requirement for identifiable objects Part of a larger solution (TAG): –Resolution, harvest, search