[Tdwg-tag] TCS in RDF for use in LSIDs and possiblegeneric mechanism.
Fini A. Alring
falring at gbif.org
Fri Mar 24 13:28:28 CET 2006
Hi roger and Ricardo,
Altova (XMLSpy) has similar products for creating forms on top of XML
Schema's, I think it's called Stylevision.
However I don't see either of these tools as fitting for a 'global' roll
out where each biologist is required to own a license for either of
these tools.
For widespread use, a custom web interface seems more appropriate to me.
// Fini
Roger Hyam wrote:
>
> Thanks Ricardo.
>
> Now I am not a great fan of MS Office but I am actually going to say
> that this looks pretty cool :)
>
> I just put a quick form together based on the avowed.xsd, filled out a
> copy and validated it against the w3c RDF validator.
>
> So yes you can build forms on the basis of XML Schema and yes the
> results can be valid RDF. So here we have a 'cool tool' for biologists
> to create XML by filling in forms and the resulting XML can also be
> valid RDF!
>
> The only fly in the ointment is the need for every desktop to have a
> copy of InfoPath on it and no cross platform support etc. Good for
> inside larger organisations though.
>
> Roger
>
> Ricardo Scachetti Pereira wrote:
>> Roger,
>>
>> Microsoft InfoPath 2003, which comes with Microsoft Office 2003
>> Professional, is supposed to do what you want.
>>
>> It doesn't create a nice looking user interface automagically from
>> an XML Schema, though. You need to load the schema and then design
>> the form, by dragging the XML elements into it and adding captions,
>> labels, etc. But once you do that, the user interface for filling in
>> the form is kinda nice.
>>
>> It comes with a number of silly templates for business use
>> (invoices, time cards, etc). I loaded TCS schema v1.0 and designed a
>> simple form using it just for fun. See the attached picture.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ricardo
>>
>>
>> Roger Hyam wrote:
>>
>>> Can you point me in the direction of a tool that will generate
>>> interfaces for data editing from an arbitrary XML Schema - and works
>>> out the box? I presume that, as you bemoan the lack of them for RDF,
>>> they exist for XML Schema based documents.
>>>
>>> I am not talking XML editors (Spy and friends) here I am talking
>>> pukka data editors for regular biologists to use. I gave up trying
>>> to find these tools a while back but they may now have reached
>>> maturity. There was all this promise that one would be able to
>>> define a document structure in XML Schema and distribute this to
>>> clients and they would just see groovy forms to fill in and manage
>>> data in a database somewhere. No more slog in designing user
>>> interfaces just one generic tool. I got excited about XForms but
>>> soon got over that. Is there a tool I can download and use with SDD,
>>> TCS and ABCD?
>>>
>>> If I could get my hands on such a tool I could try it with one of my
>>> 'avowed' serialization schemas and then demonstrate that I am
>>> editing RDF with it - but that really would be confusing. Where are
>>> the generic XML tools you imply?
>>>
>>>
>>
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