[Taxacom] LSIDs as tags (was: AMNH, spiders, and LSIDs)

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <DE54C7C8-DB72-441F-91C2-85AEF00DE5EE at bio.gla.ac.uk>, Roderic
Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> writes

> My LSID tester  (http:// darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/ )

If, where you have:

        .../tester/?q=urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:11815

you could use:

        .../tester/urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:11815

or, better, just:

        .../tester/lsid:ubio.org:namebank:11815

then the fragments to the right of the final slash could be used as
"tags" and the links could be marked-up using the "rel-tag" microformat:

        <http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag>

as, say:

        <a
          rel="tag"
          href=".../tester/lsid:ubio.org:namebank:11815">

so that people could tag pages (in blogs, for example) or pictures (on,
say Flickr) of the organism concerned with a tag of:

        lsid:ubio.org:namebank:11815

thereby adding discoverability, without reducing or changing any of the
current uses of LSIDs.

[A version of this proposal has been posted at
<http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag-feedback#UIDs>]

-- 
Andy Mabbett

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