Re: using institution labels
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:40:59 -0600
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From: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: using institution labels
29 Jul 1999
Philadelphia
Rob Colwell
Thanks much Rob, done. SRNP and ACGU. But that is only temporary until
someone actually follows your suggestion.
Go.
Dan and Winnie and Espinita
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>From: "Robert K. Colwell" <colwell@uconnvm.uconn.edu>
>To: "Daniel Janzen" <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>, <sackley@compuserve.com>,
> <bill.armstrong@intermec.com>, <brianb@mizar.usc.edu>,
> <christine.deal@intermec.com>,
> "Winnie Hallwachs" <whallwac@sas.upenn.edu>, <mkaspari@ou.edu>,
> <becky_nichols@nps.gov>, <Chuck_Parker@nps.gov>,
><KPerry@intermec.com>,
> <cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov>, <windsord@tivoli.si.edu>,
> <dl@pick.uga.edu>, "Jack Longino" <longinoj@elwha.evergreen.edu>,
> <jugalde@inbio.ac.cr>, <longinoj@evergreen.edu>,
> "John Pickering" <pick@pick.uga.edu>,
> "Jim Beach" <jbeach@eagle.cc.ukans.edu>
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>Dan wrote:
>
>>In the meantime, if there is no mechanism for a free-standing project to
>>voluntarily and easily (straightforwardly) central register a prefix for a
>>"its" bar codes, at the least, there are going to be great flocks of bar
>>codes with raw numbers or unconsciously duplicated prefixes on them
>>cascading into (and through) museums and other sorts of cyberspace/physical
>>repositories.
>
>And Chris wrote:
>
>>But I do think it is time for some organization (USOBI? the future GBIF
>>secretariat?) to set up a "Domain Name Server" for organizational unique
>>identifiers which are being used for specimen data databases, etc. We can
>>discuss it and get it rolling at ECN this fall, but the issue is much
>>larger than the entomology community, etc. And there are other issues they
>>will have to address (like there needs to be a special universal tag
>>(metadata tag) to be used with these barcodes to tell java machines to
>>parse the alphas from the numerics and then to get URL from that DNS, etc.
>>for the appropriate database, etc.) to get us to the interoperability we
>>all want, etc.
>
>Take a look at http://developer.apple.com/dev/cftype/index.html.
>
>This is the registry site for Apple Creator Codes, the 4-character,
>globally unique codes that link Mac OS icons with their corresponding
>file types (among other uses). (I used it to register Biot for Biota and
>EstS for EstimateS).
>
>Anyone (e.g. you--no charge and you do not have to be registered
>developer) can simply dream up any 4-character code and submit it. (Case
>sensitive, full ASCII set, but cannot be all lowercase letters--Apple
>uses those.)
>
>Apple sends you back an (automated) email reply. If the code you asked
>for is not yet registered by someone else, you've got it, for all
>eternity, and no one else can touch it. If it IS already taken, you try
>again. (There are other sites where you can look up your proposed code
>ahead of time, but they are informal and incomplete; Apple considers the
>codes confidential.)
>
>Seems to me this is a virtually perfect model for what we need. Should
>not be too hard to set up--or maybe Apple would like to do a little pro
>bono work and help someone set up such a site? Of course, in our case, we
>would publish, at the registration site, a list of all previously
>registered institutional and project barcode prefix registrations.
>
>If human oversight is needed, a human could be put in the system between
>the online reg request and the email confirming or denying.
>
>Rob
>
>
>_________
>Robert K. Colwell, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, U-43
>University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3042, USA
>Voice: 860-486-4395 Fax 860-486-6364
>colwell@uconn.edu
>Visit the Biota Website at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/biota
>& the EstimateS Website at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/estimates.
>
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