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One man's search is another man's inventory!<br>
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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. <br>
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I need to expand on the modification date thing - probably in a few
days.<br>
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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.<br>
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I need to expand on the parameter things.<br>
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Does this solve inventory problems?<br>
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GBIFDataPortal.GetAllOccurrenceRecords() might be popular with the
compulsive data hoarders!<br>
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Roger<br>
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Donald Hobern wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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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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?
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Betreff: Re: [tdwg-tapir] TaxonAPI
Hi Roger,
You might also like to examine
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TOSAPISignatures">http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TOSAPISignatures</a>
The interfaces and implementation have been developed as part of the SEEK
project.
regards,
Dave V.
Roger Hyam wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TIP/TaxonAPI">http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TIP/TaxonAPI</a>
I would be most grateful for your comments.
How does this fit with Tapir?
Roger
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