Hi Peter,
Glad to hear you are moving ahead with the LSID resolver.
peter.hollas@thomson.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am in the process of putting together the LSID service component of Zoobank.org, after a few initial hiccups and difficulties I have a basic service up and running in the development environment.
Now I have arrived at the contentious issue of what data/metadata to return and in which flavour.
I have a few questions...
- What format should I return the metadata response in? From
discussions with Roger it seems appropriate to go with RDF/TCS for the metadata reponse. Would this be a good way to go, and does anyone have any static examples of such a response?
Sally has sent the version we are currently working with. At the St Louis meeting next month I hope this will become part of a larger TDWG ontology and the name spaces stabilize. From the implementation point of view any changes are likely to be minor though. If you can produce this you should be able to produce the 'final' version.
- If a Data service were implemented, should the response simply be the
LSID or the taxon name as we don't currently hold any holotype photos etc.
I wouldn't bother returning anything for 'data' about names. This is debated but as no one can agree on what it definitely should be (if anything) so nobody is likely to call the getData method anyhow. Holotype images are likely to have LSIDs of their own and be linked to from the name metadata.
- Is there any standard scheme for LSID discovery? i.e. Would it be a
good/bad idea to extend the LSID service to allow machine queries of LSIDs by taxon name rather than discovering them through the web interface?
I have been proposing that a standard harvesting protocol should be adopted. OAI was the top candidate but I haven't had time to look into it and I don't think anybody else has. I just noticed Rod is suggesting OpenSearch. I'd like to see some one have a look into these alternatives after October and try and come up with some recommendations/applicability statements. OAI has the notion of subsets of data and it would be good to have some method of sharing subset names etc.
All the best,
Roger
Any comments and suggestions are very welcome!
Regards, Peter.
Peter Hollas MSc BSc(hons) (Peter.Hollas@thomson.com) Software Engineer / Systems Administrator Thomson Zoological Innovation Centre York Science Park Heslington York YO10 5DG
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