GUID Guide

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Submitted by baskaufs on

There is no mention in this guide of the TDWG GUID Applicability Guide standard (http://www.tdwg.org/standards/150/).  It also is not clear to me that the iDigBio recommendations in this guide are in conformance to the TDWG standard, in particular R2 and R7. 
 
I also find it extremely disturbing that iDigBio does not make it clear that the specimen itself should have a GUID identifier that is distinct from the records about the specimen and other resources related to the specimen (e.g. images).  I was under the impression from the comment at http://iphylo.blogspot.it/2013/01/idigbio-you-are-putting-identifiers-on.html that this was going to be fixed.  I don't see that it has been in the 2013-06-26 version.  If iDigBio doesn't fix this, it will be a huge impediment to current efforts to clarify the semantics associated with specimens. 
 
Steve Baskauf

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