Re: [tdwg-tag] Audubon Core namespace [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
The reason behind choosing the name Audubon Core was not just the subject matter (eco covers just about everything we do with biodiversity), but it salutes a very famous and prolific illustrator and publicizer of natural history illustrations. The thought followed the tribute to Darwin in the Darwin Core. The name Audubon should pop up prominently and provide the opportunity for a nice story in tribute for this standard for sharing "biodiversity multimedia resources and collections."
Gail
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:18:23 +1100 From: Paul Murray pmurray@anbg.gov.au Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] Audubon Core namespace [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com Cc: "Vishwas Chavan (GBIF)" vchavan@gbif.org, "José Cuadra (GBIF)" jcuadra@gbif.org, Greg
Riccardi griccardi@fsu.edu, tdwg-tag@tdwg.org
On 28/11/2010, at 4:46 AM, Bob Morris wrote:
Let's settle this. I think http://abnc.tdwg.org works and is easy to associate with Audubon Core. In my opinion:
- ac is too short and not evocative
- adbc has too much baggage in the U.S. because of the NSF
digitization effort http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503559&org=&from_org...
- adbnc is too long, though a close second for me
- audc is possible but more evocative of audio than audubon
The other approach would be to name it after its subject mater. If Audubon Core concerns itself with
ecology, then eco.tdwg.org would work.
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Paul might not know that we are talking about the proposed Multimedia Resources Metadata vocabulary, formerly denoted MRTG after its task group name, now being proposed as the Audubon Core.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Gail E. Kampmeier gkamp@illinois.edu wrote:
The reason behind choosing the name Audubon Core was not just the subject matter (eco covers just about everything we do with biodiversity), but it salutes a very famous and prolific illustrator and publicizer of natural history illustrations. The thought followed the tribute to Darwin in the Darwin Core. The name Audubon should pop up prominently and provide the opportunity for a nice story in tribute for this standard for sharing "biodiversity multimedia resources and collections."
Gail
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:18:23 +1100 From: Paul Murray pmurray@anbg.gov.au Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] Audubon Core namespace [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com Cc: "Vishwas Chavan (GBIF)" vchavan@gbif.org, "José Cuadra (GBIF)" jcuadra@gbif.org, Greg
Riccardi griccardi@fsu.edu, tdwg-tag@tdwg.org
On 28/11/2010, at 4:46 AM, Bob Morris wrote:
Let's settle this. I think http://abnc.tdwg.org works and is easy to associate with Audubon Core. In my opinion:
- ac is too short and not evocative
- adbc has too much baggage in the U.S. because of the NSF
digitization effort http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503559&org=&from_org...
- adbnc is too long, though a close second for me
- audc is possible but more evocative of audio than audubon
The other approach would be to name it after its subject mater. If Audubon Core concerns itself with
ecology, then eco.tdwg.org would work.
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On 29/11/2010, at 2:12 PM, Gail E. Kampmeier wrote:
The reason behind choosing the name Audubon Core was not just the subject matter (eco covers just about everything we do with biodiversity), but it salutes a very famous and prolific illustrator and publicizer of natural history illustrations. The thought followed the tribute to Darwin in the Darwin Core. The name Audubon should pop up prominently and provide the opportunity for a nice story in tribute for this standard for sharing "biodiversity multimedia resources and collections."
Ah - I was thinking of the Audubon Society, not the man himself.
Perhaps jjac.tdwg.org, for "John James Audubon"? The vocabulary itself would still be called "Audubon Core" for simplicity.
We have uploaded to google code the software currently being used at biodiversity.org.au to serve up LSID metadata, linked-data objects identified by URI, and reply to OAI-PMH requests.
The code is available here: svn checkout http://ala-nsl.googlecode.com/svn/service-layer/trunk service-layer
or svn checkout https://ala-nsl.googlecode.com/svn/service-layer/trunk service-layer
(I find that http doesn't work for me - something to do with authenticating to google code through the corporate firewall)
The system is our "quick, get something working" interim solution for creating a web presence for our data, pending a full National Species List application. It is a suite of XSQL source files that are loaded into an instance of the eXist XML database (exist.sourceforge.net).
Using it is a matter of
* acquiring a domain name that you wish to use for your LSID authority and hosting the software * generating dumps of your data as XML * identifying your XML elements with lsids * writing XSL style shhets to convert your XML into the various output formats that you wish to support.
As this system imposes few constraints on the underlying XML, you do not need to "massage" your data into some specific format. Being small and self-contained, it could be a useful way of exposing small data sets peculiar to some space - although it accommodates millions of records perfectly well at our installation.
The payoff is that system does correctly implement the LSID standard (etc). This can be seen by navigating to http://lsid.tdwg.org/summary/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:54321
As you see - the software at tdwg has no difficulty talking to our resolver and fetching the data from it.
Likewise, linked data is implemented - although HEAD requests are not getting through correctly and so the first test on this page fails. http://validator.linkeddata.org/vapour?vocabUri=http%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversity.or...
Nevertheless: uriburner, zeitgeist and so on manage to retrieve and process the data from our URIs correctly.
Caveats:
* The system is not tested with LSIDs with versions. I believe that the usual use for versioned LSIDs is for serving up data (eg: media) rather than metadata, and that is not the focus of this bit of software. * The system requires some configuration, both internally and at the web server. Most particularly, we needed to perform mappings at our reverse proxy to get URIs passed though to the correct targets behind out firewall. * The script that loads the executable XSQL into eXist is a unix script which works on Solaris and on OSX. The repository does not include an equivalent windows command file. * You will almost certainly need to write at least some XSLT to get the output you want. The repository comes with a demo dataset. * There is minimal documentation, I'm afraid. The READMEs point you at our confluence page, but there's not much there in relation to getting this bit of software going. * The system does not magically vanish all the issues with regard to RDF and XML vocabularies and the like. Conforming to standards is a matter of generating and loading conformant XML, or tweaking your XSLT. If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. If this e-mail or any attachments have been sent to you in error, that error does not constitute waiver of any confidentiality, privilege or copyright in respect of information in the e-mail or attachments.
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