[Taxacom] GBIF beginner's guide to persistent identifiers - call for comments on draft document

[Éamonn Ó Tuama (GBIF)]

In May 2010, GBIF issued a call for proposals to draft a GBIF ‘Beginner's
guide to issuing persistent identifiers for biodiversity resources’ (see:

 
<http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/reque
st-for-proposals-to-draft-gbif-booklet/>
http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/reques
t-for-proposals-to-draft-gbif-booklet/). The contract was subsequently
awarded to a team coordinated by Kevin Richards (Landcare Research, New
Zealand) and the first draft of the guide is now available for community
consultation/comment.

You are invited to review (or circulate for review to interested colleagues)
the draft document available for download here:
http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/eotuama/read/8160/. Please return your
comments to the authors using the following email address:
PID-Guide-Feedback at gbif.org.  All comments will be considered by the authors
and, where appropriate, will inform the final version of the guide to be
released in October 2010.

The closing date for receipt of comments is 30th September 2010.

With regards,

Éamonn Ó Tuama

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Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (eotuama at gbif.org), 

Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA), 

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, 

Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK 
Phone:  +45 3532 1494; Fax:  +45 3532 1480