LSID Pros & Cons

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Please describe usage of LSIDs in terms of known or perceived pros and cons.

Description	Pros
LSID Non-URL Path	Entity can be moved without changing URI
LSID has its own, standardized resolvement mechanism	Someone has already done the work
LSIDs start with `urn:`, not with `http:`	Nobody mistakes them for HTTP-resolvable URLs
Includes revisioning	Can refer explicitly to a specific version of an identifiable resource, example: `urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nig.gov:[[GenBank]]:T48601:2` refers to the second version of an entry in GenBank. In life sciences, databases are continually updated.
General transform for making LSID work with HTTP	Simple Concatenation to resolution site, e.g., http://lsid.org/lsid:myorg.org:namespace:objectid:v1
Usage of LSID	There are many users of LSID, e.g. Taverna, Ubio, BioMoby, Taxonomic Databases Working Group, Hapmap project, Pseudogene, BioPathways, Kim, GBIF

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