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Thanks all for the information and comments about the status of uBio.
I'm glad to hear that the server will probably come back up. If not,
then I hope the data will be made available to those who said they
would be willing to host it.<br>
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I have been interested in using the uBio identifiers for several
reasons:<br>
1. They have managed to stick around for a long time and are stable in
their format (as LSIDs and HTTP proxied LSIDs).<br>
2. The coverage of names is really good for plants, animals, different
geographic locations, etc. I also use ITIS identifiers but it's fairly
common for me to not be able to find one for the name I need, which
almost never happens with uBio.<br>
3. It's somewhat clear what uBio identifiers refer to: names vs.
something more nebulous involving taxa or ... something. (Not trying
to push your button, Rich Pyle). <br>
4. You can actually get RDF associated with the LSID version of the
uBio identifiers. I was wanting to download some to play with in our
new triplestore (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rdf.library.vanderbilt.edu">http://rdf.library.vanderbilt.edu</a>) when I discovered
that the server was down. The RDF is somewhat ad hoc, but hey, it's
there.<br>
<br>
There isn't really any other source that has all of these
characteristics. So please keep uBio going indefinitely, if at all
possible. <br>
Steve<br>
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Dmitry Mozzherin wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">I had been administering uBio for the last year, but
now I am moving from MBL. uBio machine is in a bad shape, and it
crashes after a few hours of work. My plan is to create Docker
containers for database, code and data, which should make whole system
much more stable, and much more manageable. Good news I will definitely
try my best to do it, the bad news I am spread thinner than usual with
move, transferring hardware and grant, GN things, EOL things, and
figuring out what to do with the house etc. uBio 'code' part is about
35 Gb, which makes the task more complicated, but I am quite optimistic
that I will be able to make containers and put them either on an MBL
machine, run it from University of Illinois, or give it to Naturalis --
depending on what will make more sense for Dave Remsen, MBL and all
interested in the project.</div>
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