OK, second rant of the day. One of my favourite online specimen databases is AntWeb. For a while the ability to harvest data from this database using the venerable DiGIR protocol hasn't been possible, due to various issues at the California Academy of Sciences.

As part of the slow rebuild of bioguid.info, and as part of the Challenge, I've started making an OpenURL resolver for specimens. Partly this is just a wrapper around DiGIR providers, but it's also a response to the lack of GUIDs for specimens.