No doubt because these are very small objects within very large pools of very differently funded, asynchronous projects, many years apart. And, it's a predictable outcome when the currency of data exchange is an "occurrence" whose components rest on independently derived and maintained metadata.

In other words, if the private or not-for-profit sectors had reasons to hire professional collectors & to fund their occasionally unsuccessful expeditions, then companies like BioQuip (entomological supplies) would still be in business today.

Collecting "smarter" doesn't solve the shortfall of collectors. But, accreditation and professionalization through academia & schools might if the engines of employment came from the private sector, and whose dies were helped cast by gov't. You have to build something in this new world.

Agree on the maintenance of mappings. Source identifiers are unstable, requiring that cross-walks resort to repeat string matching + hierarchies when available. Closest I've seen any system doing this well at scale is verifier.globalnames.org, but is itself subject to maintenance burdens.

But, that'd of course disassociate 22,000 saved maps since 2010 from their 4,500 creators 😬. Oof. Will have a quiet unwind this weekend and contemplate next steps.

One option is to continue serving www.simplemappr.net but with login & store of map configurations stripped out. I expect that remapping of identity to whatever might be a new login will be near impossible.

That's very kind & generous, @schatzimanolis.bsky.social. As with any significant bit of code that's aged (a lot), reintegration with modern login services will have overwhelming trickle-down effects. The OS is old, the PHP code is old, the MapServer plug-ins no longer exist, etc. etc.

Could be that grey goatee. 🧔

In any case, I am defining an organization that creates persistent identifiers (PIDs) one that has money, can get money, has some web services, and does police work.

See github.com/gbif/ingesti... where @gbif.org tracks the publishing/processing hiccups from one dataset's republication event to the next. 2,100+ issues resolved since 2023 and a handful of new ones every week.

Can I buy one for my now 18yr old son who was a breached baby?

Noted to myself: "The point of these adventures is to unplug, disconnect from everything except what's immediately in front of you & to solve little problems of movement, shelter, and food, correct Mister? Seems you've forgotten to do step 1." 😜

I *could* have seriously panicked (phone also controls some of my SATCOM device features!!) - being 15+km away from nearest road to where other humans could find me - or just calm my chilled, fuzzed brain and make some tea. When I remembered the code?! Best floss dance in the woods ever!

My boys make fun of my Crocs, but after long days in squelchy boots, they're awesome! A roaring fire next day to finally have tea (and dry clothes) was fun. The frazzled brain, zapped by cold water that forgot the unlock code on its phone until said fire? Not so much. 🥶

It snowed! At least I had the foresight to scrounge for a toque in the woollens bin before the trip — no doubt purchased when last visiting the folks at @gbif.org in Copenhagen before there was grey in my beard.