Many thanks, Rod!
- The dates in the TaxonName:publication section are a bit
of a mess (one date lacks a year, and "11/26/1998 12:00:00 AM" is not an ISO standard date, it is also open to ambiguity given that the US writes month/day/year whereas Europeans write day/month/year). I think YYYY-MM-DD is the way to go to avoid major headaches. I've blogged about the mess DiGIR providers have created by not using ISO standard dates.
DAMN! I thought I fixed that a long time ago -- maybe not (actually, I did a restore a while ago, and I thought I corrected everything, but maybe I missed the dates). In any case, I'll have that fixed as soon as I get to work in an hour or so. Thanks for catching it!
- There's no journal name or ISSN so we don't know where
this was published. I guess one could get this via the parent citation resource, but if you have all the other metadata included in the RDF, why not the journal?
That's a question for Kevin Richards, mostly. I guess a more general question is: how do we / should we automaticlly recurse up the "parentCitation" chain? My thinking is "yes", but I'm not completely sure how to represent that (nested?). I suppose I could flatten it out in the "parentCitationString" (which I only just now realized I havn't done yet -- must have been on a "todo" list that disappeared). But I wonder if there shouldn't be a more structured way of doing this for refs with n-number of parents/grandparents/etc.
- The article in question has a DOI, hence it would be nice
to link to that (doi:10.1007/BF02725185). I know you're working towards this, but without an external GUID for the publication I think nomenclators will be of limited use.
Agreed -- and yes, I am headed that way -- just limited to 24hrs/day right now -- only 22hrs/day, when you subtract sleep.... :-)
Anyway, many thanks....
Also: something I thought you would comment on, and what I've been meaning to ask this list: How to deal with HTML tags within data values? Note that the title: "<i>Belonoperca pylei</i>, a new species of seabass (Teleostei: Serranidae: Epinephelinae: Diploprionini) from the Cook Islands with comments on relationships among diploprionins"
I markup the original data field with "...<i>...</i>..." tags to denote italics, but I'm not sure what to do with those tags when piping out metadata in RDF. I could strip them easily enough --- but should I?
Thoughts/comments welcome....
Aloha, Rich