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<DIV><SPAN class=284074510-28092006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Roger,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=284074510-28092006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I was
rather thinking about different ways of serializing RDF. RDF/XML is just one way
of expressing RDF and I would like to know if LSIDs (or TDWG) specifies that
RDF/XML should be used. If a service is free to pick, a RDF framework, in
contrast to templates, could probably easily return different formats for the
same RDF graph.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=284074510-28092006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Markus</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
rogerhyam@googlemail.com [mailto:rogerhyam@googlemail.com] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Roger Hyam<BR><B>Sent:</B> Donnerstag, 28. September 2006
11:53<BR><B>To:</B> Döring, Markus<BR><B>Cc:</B> Steve Perry;
peter.hollas@thomson.com; tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Tdwg-guid] Which TCS/RDF?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi Markus,<BR><BR>The LSID spec
suggests that RDF is the default return type but you can request different
formats. We would just need to agree on names for the formats.<BR><BR>Thinking
from a clients point of view consistency is the most important thing I guess
especially if the data is going to be mixed with data from other sources. It
would be far easier to write a client to handle just RDF than to handle RDF
plus arbitrary other formats - perhaps with a plug in infrastructure etc
etc. <BR><BR>All the best,<BR><BR>Roger<BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/28/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>"Döring,
Markus"</B> <<A href="mailto:m.doering@bgbm.org">m.doering@bgbm.org</A>>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hi,<BR>I
was wondering if the LSID specs require you to return RDF/XML. Could a
service also return (or even request?) Turtle, N-Triple, RDFa or whatever
comes next year? <BR><BR>It would be costly to switch formats using a
templating system, so I am just
curious.<BR><BR>Markus<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: <A
href="mailto:tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu">tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu
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On Behalf Of Steve Perry<BR>Sent: Dienstag, 26. September 2006 18:12<BR>To:
<A
href="mailto:peter.hollas@thomson.com">peter.hollas@thomson.com</A><BR>Cc:
<A
href="mailto:tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu">tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu</A><BR>Subject:
Re: [Tdwg-guid] Which TCS/RDF?<BR><BR><BR>Hi Peter,<BR><BR>I was just
writing a response to your question about Jena, but I'll <BR>scrap it
now. Unfortunately there's no standard representation for
TCS<BR>in RDF at this time. Hopefully there will be one in the
near future.<BR><BR>Jena is well suited to consuming RDF metadata, but I
agree with you that <BR>it's a bit heavyweight if all you want to do is
produce many instances<BR>of a single class.<BR><BR>Visualizing the problem
as one of templating and using Spring MVC is a<BR>neat
approach. I use Spring mostly for dependency injection and hadn't
<BR>considered that it might be used to isolate this kind of software
from<BR>changes in the schema.<BR><BR>-Steve<BR><BR><BR><BR><A
href="mailto:peter.hollas@thomson.com">peter.hollas@thomson.com</A>
wrote:<BR>> Hi,<BR>><BR>> Could someone advise on which TCS/RDF
ontology would be the best to<BR>> implement for metadata coming from
nomenclatural sources such as<BR>> ZooBank? I've yet to come across
anything other than a TCS XML Schema <BR>> in public
circulation.<BR>><BR>> I've decided to do away with using the Jena API
altogether for<BR>> returning metadata responses from ZooBank; it seems
to be rather heavy<BR>> handed approach to returning what is basically a
simple structured <BR>> text document. A much more flexible way to go is
with a page<BR>> templating system, especially when the schemata are in
constant flux.<BR>> A Spring Framework MVC/JSTL endpoint will allow for
schemata changes <BR>> to be implemented without recompilation. The LSID
metadata class will<BR>> just act as a façade/decorator to the templating
system.<BR>><BR>> Many thanks, Peter.<BR>><BR>>
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