<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone,<div class="">the assistant (and also the GBIF dwca validator & IPT) makes use of the term groups defined in the xml dwca extension definitions which are hand crafted. </div><div class="">E.g. for occurrence terms this one:</div><div class=""><a href="http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2015-07-02.xml" class="">http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2015-07-02.xml</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no rdf version of that I am afraid. </div><div class="">But we could probably generate an RDF view if that is sth useful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Markus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Nov 2016, at 12:06, Matthew Blissett <<a href="mailto:mblissett@gbif.org" class="">mblissett@gbif.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I'm not sure the DWCA assistant is a best practice, but I don't know of anything better for the job. The source code is here: <a href="https://github.com/gbif/gbif-meta-maker" class="">https://github.com/gbif/gbif-meta-maker</a><br class=""><br class="">When it loads, it retrieves the list of extensions from here: <a href="http://gbrds.gbif.org/registry/extensions.json" class="">http://gbrds.gbif.org/registry/extensions.json</a> . This is also used by the GBIF IPT. We have a regular cron job keeping it up to date.<br class=""><br class="">Hope that helps,<br class=""><br class="">Matt<br class=""><br class="">On 29/11/16 03:48, Matt Yoder wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Steve,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for the endpoint, I will have to play with it. I think that I<br class="">have returned, for practical purposes, the same set of results by<br class="">parsing <a href="http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2015-07-02.xml" class="">http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2015-07-02.xml</a>. Your<br class="">concluding observations are right on point. I want something more-<br class="">the sets present in the assistant, available as some resource<br class="">endpoint. I want to automatically generate Ruby constants, Rails<br class="">migrations, rspec validators and more via a more or less self-updating<br class=""> Ruby gem. This let's me replicate the functionality in the assistant<br class="">in a back end without having to guess what I should cover.<br class=""><br class="">It would seem that if the assistant is a best practice (and first step<br class="">for many) towards getting others to using DWCAs then the metadata that<br class="">drives that assistant should be available as a meta-standard of sorts?<br class="">Is the source code to the assistant available somewhere?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Matt<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I'm not sure that this query will actually do what you want, since the terms<br class="">in the various dropdowns in the DwC-A Assistant aren't strictly those whose<br class="">dwcattributes:organizedInClass properties have values that are the dropdown<br class="">category. Also, the various extensions aren't there. But your question is<br class="">a kind of use case that TDWG should think about supporting for<br class="">"enhancements" [2] to the basic DwC term vocabulary.<br class=""><br class="">Steve<br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/blob/master/documentation-specification.md" class="">https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/blob/master/documentation-specification.md</a><br class="">[2] see Section 4 (Vocabulary enhancements) of<br class=""><a href="https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/blob/master/maintenance-specification.md" class="">https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/blob/master/maintenance-specification.md</a><br class=""><br class="">Matt Yoder wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">I was wondering if there is an RDF document like<br class="">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/master/rdf/dwcterms.rdf that had<br class="">something like the dwcattributes:organizedInClass therein such that I<br class="">could query it to return terms as organized in the dwca-assistant<br class="">(http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-assistant/)?<br class=""><br class="">In other words I want to return all terms under Core::Occurence,<br class="">Core::Taxon, Core::Extensions::Foo etc.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for your time,<br class="">Matt<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tdwg-content mailing list<br class="">tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org<br class="">http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">--<br class="">Steven J. 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