Dear Richard,
Quick comments on the metadata the LSID serves:
1. 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.
2. 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?
3. 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. Merely reproducing bibliographic metadata is ultimately an exercise in pain, given that most metadata contains errors or omissions, and the poor user has to dela with this when they try and track down the reference (or, more interestingly, try and link the literature together).
Regards
Rod
On 29 Nov 2007, at 18:04, Richard Pyle wrote:
Thanks Rod,
The two LSIDs in your links are truncated due to line wrap in my original message. They should be:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:20889795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D1D97704A609
urn:lsid:bishopmuseum.org:tnu:20889795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D1D97704A609
Both have essentially identical WSDL data -- though it might be cached still from yesterday.
WSDL looks mostly the same as IPNI:
http://zoobank.bishopmuseum.org/authority/?lsid=urn:lsid:zoobank.org: act:208 89795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D1D97704A609
http://nsdb.bishopmuseum.org/authority/?lsid=urn:lsid: bishopmuseum.org:tnu:2 0889795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D1D97704A609
No doubt both of these will be truncated/line-wrapped as well....
Sally: might be DNS, but the DNS record hasn't changed for the ZooBank service since it was originally created, and I know it was working through the TDWG resolver back before/during Bratislava.
Lee: I've been pestering Kevin about other issues I ran into setting up the new nsdb LSID resolver, but I figured that the problem was with the TDWG resolver service, since Rod's tester seems to work fine on both (or am I missing something about your tester, Rod?) But now that I see that the nsdb LSIDs resolve through the TDWG site fine, I'm beginning to suspect the problem is with IIS on the ZooBank server. The Code really is identical (if anything, it should be broken on the nsdb version, not the zoobank version).
Hmmm....
Many thanks for all the feedback so far!
Aloha, Rich
From: Roderic Page [mailto:r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:57 PM To: Richard Pyle Cc: tdwg-guid@lists.tdwg.org Subject: Re: [tdwg-guid] TDWG LSID Resolver broken?
Rich,
The authority WSDL looks to be empty. I can't get either LSIDs to work now with my tester. If you look at
http://nsdb.bishopmuseum.org/authority/?lsid=urn:lsid: bishopmuseum.org:tnu:2 0889795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D
or
http://zoobank.bishopmuseum.org/authority/?lsid=urn:lsid:zoobank.org: act:208 89795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D1D977
you'll see a pretty empty WSDL file. Compare this to, say, IPNI's:
http://www.ipni.org/authority/authority?lsid=urn:lsid:ipni.org:names: 2001272 8-1:1.1
I suspect there's a problem with Zoobank's code, and it might have taken a while to appear as my tester caches the WSDLs for 24 hours.
Regards
Rod
On 28 Nov 2007, at 23:27, Richard Pyle wrote:
VERY strange! This LSID does not work:http://lsid.tdwg.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:20889795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3- D1D977 04A609
But this one does:http://lsid.tdwg.org/urn:lsid:bishopmuseum.org:tnu:20889795-7EC7-42F3- A4C3-D 1D97704A609
Even though these are the exact same record from the exactsame database, and the latter resolver was created from the exact same source code as the former.
Both seem to work fine on Rod's tester page, except thelatter has one failure (5a), while in the former it is just a warning.
Go figure.... Rich ________________________________ From: Paul Kirk [mailto:p.kirk@cabi.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:57 AM To: Richard Pyle Subject: RE: [tdwg-guid] TDWG LSID Resolver broken?Hi Rich,works OK for IF LSIDshttp://lsid.tdwg.org/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:296755http://lsid.tdwg.org/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:296755
Cheers,Paul ________________________________ From: tdwg-guid-bounces@lists.tdwg.org on behalf of RichardPyle Sent: Wed 28/11/2007 21:52 To: tdwg-guid@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-guid] TDWG LSID Resolver broken?
Hi All,I'm testing the ZooBank LSID resolver, and I can't seem toget any of my LSIDs to work with the TDWG LSID resolver (http://lsid.tdwg.org/) They used to work a couple months ago, but now they don't.
For example:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:20889795-7EC7-42F3-A4C3-D1D97704A609
This works fine on Rod's Tester site:http://linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/tester/Any ideas???Thanks, RichRichard L. Pyle, PhD Database Coordinator for Natural Sciences and Associate Zoologist in Ichthyology Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817 Ph: (808)848-4115, Fax: (808)847-8252 email: deepreef@bishopmuseum.org http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/staff/pylerichard.html_______________________________________________ tdwg-guid mailing list tdwg-guid@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-guidP Think Green - don't print this email unless you reallyneed to
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