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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