An example lsid is urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:213645.
More LSIDs can be found by searching the indexfungorum names on the IF
web site
http://www.indexfungorum.org.
The authority currently serves up exactly the same basic xml
that is served by the IF web service (see
http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm).
The same xml is returned for both the metadata and the data at this
stage - the LSID data will change later to something that we decide is
the "unchangeable set of bytes" for a particular taxon name.
As the return format is not RDF, this means that the metadata
and data returned is not viewable by using IE Launchpad. However if
you use launchpad it saves the metadata to the cache directory and you
can view this file. The plugin for Firefox seems a little more verbose
and allows you to save the data and metadata to a location of your
choice when downloading the LSID info. Go to
The next step will be to return a more usefule format - RDF
based on the TCS schema seems to be the desired option. I'm not sure
how to approach this if anyone has any suggestions (ie the RDF version
of TCS)? As it is a prototype, I could add "dummy" RDF predicates for
the TCS elements required for an IF name, eg
"http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple",
or create real temprary ones such as
"urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:predicates:123" specifically for IF.
Anyone with more RDF experience have any suggestions?
Kevin Richards
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