<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>There is a way to do what you ask but not exactly the way you specified.</div><div><br></div><div>The way to do is via a template that refers to a particular column. </div><div>So if you put the ubio integer ID into dwc:scientificName you could could put the following into, for example, dc:source</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ubio.org/authority">http://www.ubio.org/authority</a>/metadata.php?lsid=urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:<scientificName></div><div><br></div><div>as the default and set the column to a global.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">You can see more in this document on the XML Descriptor file.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><a href="http://links.gbif.org/gbif_dwc-a_metafile_en_v1/">http://links.gbif.org/gbif_dwc-a_metafile_en_v1/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>The vocabularies option was, as far as I know, intended to provide a URI for a vocabulary so that we might be able to validate values against the vocabulary items.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>David</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 29 Apr 2011, at 22:21, Steve Baskauf wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I am playing around with Darwin Core Arcives, in particular the DwC-A <br>Assistant (<a href="http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-assistant/">http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-assistant/</a>). One thing that I am <br>not exactly clear about is how to use the "Vocabulary" column in the <br>assistant. The description that comes up when you mouse over the column <br>heading says that it should ideally be a URI that identifies the <br>vocabulary and resolves to some machine readable form like RDF. So what <br>I'm wondering is whether I can put what effectively amounts to as a <br>namespace in that spot. <br><br>For example, a URI for the name "Acer rubrum L." that actually resolves <br>to RDF is:<br><a href="http://www.ubio.org/authority/metadata.php?lsid=urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:456216">http://www.ubio.org/authority/metadata.php?lsid=urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:456216</a><br>I think that would qualify as a valid HTTP URI guid because it's the <br>proxied form of an LSID. So I would like to use it as a value for the <br>dwc:scientificNameID column in a DwC-A taxon record. However, the only <br>part of the identifier that makes the string unique within uBio's domain <br>is the last number - if I'm always using a uBio guid, the first <br>approximately 75 characters will be the same for all of the guids. So <br>can I just put <br>"http://www.ubio.org/authority/metadata.php?lsid=urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:" <br>in the Vocabulary column and then just put the locally unique numbers <br>(e.g. "456216") in the column for dwc:scientificNameID? Should an <br>application using a DwC-A file be smart enough to append the <br>"vocabulary" string on the front of the actual value in the text file? <br>Or is that not how the "Vocabulary" column is intended to be used?<br><br>Steve<br><br>-- <br>Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer<br>Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences<br><br>postal mail address:<br>VU Station B 351634<br>Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A.<br><br>delivery address:<br>2125 Stevenson Center<br>1161 21st Ave., S.<br>Nashville, TN 37235<br><br>office: 2128 Stevenson Center<br>phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 343-6707<br>http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tdwg-content mailing list<br>tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org<br>http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>