Hi Roger,
You might also like to examine
http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TOSAPISignatures
The interfaces and implementation have been developed as part of the SEEK project.
regards, Dave V.
Roger Hyam wrote:
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:
http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TIP/TaxonAPI
I would be most grateful for your comments.
How does this fit with Tapir?
Roger