Index Fungorum LSID server

Kevin Richards richardsk at LANDCARERESEARCH.CO.NZ
Mon Apr 24 09:57:09 CEST 2006


No, not too negative, its good to get some feedback.

The server is not .NET based yet - I am still working on the .NET
implementation of the LSID framework at present - making good progress
though.

Kevin

>>> r.page at BIO.GLA.AC.UK 04/23/06 10:52 PM >>>
Hope it didn't come across as too negative. I know these things are not
easy to get set up, and I'm still finding my own way through the RDF
jungle.

Is your server .NET based?

Regards

Rod

On 22 Apr 2006, at 10:57, Kevin Richards wrote:

> Thanks for those comments Rod.
> As you have seen this is an initial attempt.
>
>>> The syntax
>>>
>>>      <TaxonNames:hasBasionym>
>>>        <rdf:Description
>>> rdf:about="urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:148860" />
>>>      </TaxonNames:hasBasionym>
>>>
>>> strikes me as odd.
>
> This is due to an accidental omission of the RDF entity type of the
> basionym object.  Will fix this.
>
>>> I also suggest that urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:148860 has a
>>> complementary tag such as
>>>
>>>      <TaxonNames:isBasionymOf rdf:resource =
>>> "urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names: 213649" />
>
> Godd idea.  The fields are based on the initial implementation of
> TCS-RDF that Roger completed, and as he said, it is not a complete
> schema at this stage.  BTW the reverse RDF pointers can be viewed
using
> launchpad by going into the launchpad settings and turning on 'Show
> back
> links'.
>
>
>>> The attribute
>>> TaxonNames:nomenclaturalCode="http://tdwg.org/2006/03/12/TaxonNames/
>>> NomenclaturalCode/#botanical" of the tag <TaxonNames:TaxonName> is
>>> problematic. Firstly, I don't know why this is an attribute rather
> than
>>> just another tag,
>
> Due to my lack of understanding of RDF and when to use attributes as
> opposed to tags - I was blindly following an example.
>
>
>>> and the URI
>>> http://tdwg.org/2006/03/12/TaxonNames/NomenclaturalCode/#botanical
>>> returns a 404. If this is just a made up URI then this is bad --
> EVERY
>>> URI in an RDF document must be real -- unlike XML schema where any
> old
>>> rubbish can be used.
>
> Also due to the prototyping stage of this 'project'.  Will be fixed by
> online TDWG ontologies at some stage I assume?
>
>>>     <TaxonNames:publishedIn><i>Syll. fung.</i> (Abellini)
>>> <b>1</b>: 148 (1882) (1882)</TaxonNames:publishedIn>
>>> has formatting information (the <i></i> and <b></b> tags). I think
> this
>>> is in principle a bad thing(TM)
>
> We debated this a little and decided to leave the field text the same
> as
> has been returned by other services of IndexFungorum.  But you have a
> good point and it is something we will need to discuss further in
> future.
>
> Kevin
>
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