I am a little confused as to what is included in the capabilities
response under capabilities/schemas/schema.
The annotation says:
"Each known and mapped concept of a schema listed with a boolean flag
indicating if its searchable (default = true)."
I have a genus field in my database and I map it to the following
concept:
<concept path="/DataSet/TaxonNames/TaxonName/CanonicalName/Genus"
searchable="true" />
Should I also include the parent concepts:
<concept path="/DataSet/TaxonNames/TaxonName/CanonicalName"
searchable="false" />
<concept path="/DataSet/TaxonNames/TaxonName" searchable="false"
/>
<concept path="/DataSet/TaxonNames" searchable="false" />
<concept path="/DataSet" searchable="false" />
or are they implied? I presume if they are included then they aren't
searchable as they can't be used to build filters.
Does this:
<concept path="/DataSet/TaxonNames/TaxonName/CanonicalName/Genus"
searchable="true" />
mean:
- This concept has been mapped to data and can be used in arbitrary
response structures and filters in combination with concepts from any
of the other conceptual schemas listed in here.
If so is the entire schemas section of capabilities response optional
if arbitrary views are not supported? Both the schemas and concepts are
given in views anyhow - so do we need to list them here?
Your thoughts most appreciated - I may just have the wrong end of the
stick.
Roger
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Roger Hyam
Technical Architect
Taxonomic Databases Working Group
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roger@tdwg.org
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