[Taxacom] LSID versus names

[Stephen Thorpe]

I can understand why doi are a good idea for publications - because they don't otherwise have standard identifiers - but taxonomic names *are* standard identifiers for taxa. The fact that they fail <1% of the time is no justification for assigning *everything* GUIDs ...



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From: Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>
To: 'Jim Croft' <jim.croft at gmail.com>; 'Stephen Thorpe' <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> 
Cc: 'Chris Thompson' <xelaalex at cox.net>; 'Neal Evenhuis' <neale at bishopmuseum.org>; 'Roderic Page' <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>; 'Frederick W. Schueler' <bckcdb at istar.ca>; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Taxacom] LSID versus names

> But they are not designed for humans. They are designed for computers to
> communicate with each other unambiguously.

+1




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