Richard L. Pyle

Are there concerns about mixing "types" that are nomenclatural vs. "types" that are taxonomic? One of the challenging issues is that certain "types" that are taxonomic under one Code, might...

Thanks, @ghwhitbread ; but I have to quibble with this: > Whether the TNU establishing a new generic combination is recognized as a nomenclatural event, or not, does not change...

Thanks for tagging me on this! Like @rdmpage , I have been bothered by the state of LSIDs -- but from the opposite direction. I am bothered that we still...

By the way, another reason this is perfect timing is that we're planning the next-generation ZooBank in the context of the 5th Edition of the ICZN Code. One of the...

One final thing: > Personally I'm still baffled how our community decided that (a) the best identifier for a taxonomic name is an LSID and yet (b) made no attempt...

OK, thanks @rdmpage -- so it's not so much about the LSID resolution protocol as it is to get the content in XML format similar to the the LSID template?...

@baskaufs : Yes! As I said, we're committed to maintaining the "identity" part of LSIDs into perpetuity (if not the resolution protocol part). That was one of the things I...

OK, I'll use that as a starting point. You said it "closely matches" IPNI, IF and ION. Can we bump that up to "exactly matches" to make it even easier?...

@rdmpage : EXCELLENT! This is exactly the sort of feedback I was hoping for. OK, I decided sleep wasn't necessary tonight, so I went ahead and built version 1 of...

> Imagine if we'd gone down this route and hand DOIs for every Eukaryote taxonomic name... oh well. It's not too late! I can always replace the urn:lsid:zoobank.org:[pub|act|author]: prefix with...