Hi Everyone, I have been doing some work on a TaxonAPI. This is a high/low definition of the kind of thing I believe people publishing taxonomic data need to produce and people consuming it need to eat based on the work I have been involved in on TCS. It is framed as if it were a web service type of thing but I imagine that each of the method calls mentioned could equate to a Tapir template of some kind. I imagine a template containing a parameterized filter (not sure if those exist anymore). This is still work in progress as I need to define the list of parameters more closely and sort the greater than/less than issue for dates and a few other bits. Plus no one has seen it to comment on! You can read more about it here: http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TIP/TaxonAPI I would be most grateful for your comments. How does this fit with Tapir? Roger -- ------------------------------------- Roger Hyam Technical Architect Taxonomic Databases Working Group ------------------------------------- http://www.tdwg.org roger@tdwg.org +44 1578 722782 -------------------------------------