Slides from 30 minute talk given at Biodiversity Informatics meeting in Stockholm, 3 Decemer 2008

2. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 80 (4) 699-715 (2003)

3. http://bioguid.info/openurl/

4. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00274.x

6. Following the links

8. Identifiers

9. Resolvable

10. Shared

11. NCBI

15. Cites 2006 2006

16. Forward Cites 2006 2008

18. Where do we stand?

19. Lack of identifiers

23. Too many identifiers

24. Dolomedes tenebrosus Hentz, 1844 uBio urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2072956 Catalogue of Life urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:f3b7cf14-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008 The World Spider Catalogue urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:019664 http://ispiders.blogspot.com

25. Non-standard identifiers

26. urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3634

27. Life Science Identifiers (LSIDS)

28. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3F97F9F1-3156-4D30-AD7C-1F5BF51DD609

29. <?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?> <rdf:RDF> <PublicationCitation:PublicationCitation rdf:nodeID=&quot;urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3F97F9F1-3156-4D30-AD7C-1F5BF51DD609&quot;> <PublicationCitation:publicationType rdf:resource=&quot;JournalArticle&quot; /> <PublicationCitation:parentPublication rdf:resource=&quot; urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4BE0C73B-4560-40ED-83F8-1FA72D588990 &quot; /> <ns:identifier> urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3F97F9F1-3156-4D30-AD7C-1F5BF51DD609 </ns:identifier> <PublicationCitation:authorship>Polaszek, Andrew, …</PublicationCitation:authorship> <PublicationCitation:year>2005</PublicationCitation:year> <PublicationCitation:title>Commentary: A universal register for animal names</PublicationCitation:title> <PublicationCitation:parentPublicationString>Nature</PublicationCitation:parentPublicationString> <PublicationCitation:volume>437</PublicationCitation:volume> <PublicationCitation:pages>477</PublicationCitation:pages> </PublicationCitation:PublicationCitation> <PublicationCitation:PublicationTypeTerm rdf:about=&quot;JournalArticle&quot; /> <PublicationCitation:PublicationCitation rdf:about=&quot; urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4BE0C73B-4560-40ED-83F8-1FA72D588990 &quot; /> </rdf:RDF>

30. doi:10.1038/437477a

32. failure to reuse existing identifiers

33. data silo

34. dead end

35. Kanakysaurus viviparus

37. doi:10.1670/196-03A

40. failure to reuse existing identifiers

41. Distributed data

43. bioguid.info/status/

46. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 4 days

47. 4 days

48. 90 days

49. GBIF Portal (data.gbif.org) 4 days