Hi Steve,
Thanks for the endpoint, I will have to play with it. I think that I have returned, for practical purposes, the same set of results by parsing http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2015-07-02.xml. Your concluding observations are right on point. I want something more- the sets present in the assistant, available as some resource endpoint. I want to automatically generate Ruby constants, Rails migrations, rspec validators and more via a more or less self-updating Ruby gem. This let's me replicate the functionality in the assistant in a back end without having to guess what I should cover.
It would seem that if the assistant is a best practice (and first step for many) towards getting others to using DWCAs then the metadata that drives that assistant should be available as a meta-standard of sorts? Is the source code to the assistant available somewhere?
Thanks, Matt
I'm not sure that this query will actually do what you want, since the terms in the various dropdowns in the DwC-A Assistant aren't strictly those whose dwcattributes:organizedInClass properties have values that are the dropdown category. Also, the various extensions aren't there. But your question is a kind of use case that TDWG should think about supporting for "enhancements" [2] to the basic DwC term vocabulary.
Steve
[1] https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/blob/master/documentation-specification.md [2] see Section 4 (Vocabulary enhancements) of https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/blob/master/maintenance-specification.md
Matt Yoder wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering if there is an RDF document like https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/master/rdf/dwcterms.rdf that had something like the dwcattributes:organizedInClass therein such that I could query it to return terms as organized in the dwca-assistant (http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-assistant/)?
In other words I want to return all terms under Core::Occurence, Core::Taxon, Core::Extensions::Foo etc.
Thanks for your time, Matt _______________________________________________ tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
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