[tdwg-tapir] TaxonAPI

[Roger Hyam]

One man's search is another man's inventory!

I was thinking that the actual objects returned by these requests are 
quite small so there is no point in returning anything smaller. A call 
to GetTNamesMatching() passing a modified_after date of a very long time 
ago and paging parameters would effectively crawl over the whole resource.

I need to expand on the modification date thing  - probably in a few days.

getNamesByRank() would be GetTNamesMatching(rank_code=gen) or something 
along those lines. Rank codes would be limited to those in TCS anyhow so 
you could crawl over the whole data source this way if you wanted. 
Obviously some would return empty results.

I need to expand on the parameter things.

Does this solve inventory problems?

GBIFDataPortal.GetAllOccurrenceRecords() might be popular with the 
compulsive data hoarders!

Roger






Donald Hobern wrote:
> Inventory requests can allow us to escape from the problem Roger describes
> on the Wiki of being unable to discover all data from a nomenclatural
> provider (and the need to enforce a single root element for concepts).
> Indexing IPNI for example would be very difficult without an inventory
> request of some kind.
>
> There are clearly various ways of doing this.  One could be to include a
> message in the API getNamesByRank() (and perhaps another
> getIncludedRanks()).  Something like this might be less stress on a large
> resource than getNamesInventory().
>
> Donald
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:tdwg-tapir-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of "Döring, Markus"
> Sent: 29 November 2005 10:40
> To: tdwg-tapir at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-tapir] TaxonAPI
>
> So inventories dont seem to be important for any of the taxon APIs.
> Do we then still want to provide parameterised inventories?
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: tdwg-tapir-bounces at lists.tdwg.org
> [mailto:tdwg-tapir-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] Im Auftrag von Dave Vieglais
> Gesendet: Montag, 28. November 2005 18:40
> An: roger at tdwg.org
> Cc: tdwg-tapir at lists.tdwg.org
> Betreff: Re: [tdwg-tapir] TaxonAPI
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> You might also like to examine
>
> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TOSAPISignatures
>
> The interfaces and implementation have been developed as part of the SEEK
> project.
>
> regards,
>   Dave V.
>
> Roger Hyam wrote:
>   
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I have been doing some work on a TaxonAPI. This is a high/low 
>> definition of the kind of thing I believe people publishing taxonomic 
>> data need to produce and people consuming it need to eat based on the 
>> work I have been involved in on TCS.
>>
>> It is framed as if it were a web service type of thing but I imagine 
>> that each of the method calls mentioned could equate to a Tapir 
>> template of some kind. I imagine a template containing a parameterized 
>> filter (not sure if those exist anymore).
>>
>> This is still work in progress as I need to define the list of 
>> parameters more closely and sort the greater than/less than issue for 
>> dates and a few other bits. Plus no one has seen it to comment on!
>>
>> You can read more about it here:
>>
>> http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TIP/TaxonAPI
>>
>> I would be most grateful for your comments.
>>
>> How does this fit with Tapir?
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>     
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