Do terms in the http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ namespace actually resolve?
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I was doing some GUID testing using a Linked Data client and I noticed that some Darwin Core terms did not seem to resolve to anything. I ran a test using http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/ http://api.talis.com/stores/iand-dev1/items/dipper.html http://www5.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/marbles/ and http://dataviewer.zitgist.com/ I first I looked up http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator and all four clients reported the properties of the term. Then I tried http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/basisOfRecord and nothing happened with any of them. I ran a Vapour http://validator.linkeddata.org/vapour validation on the basisOfRecord URI and got the following message:
Vapour was unable to complete the request due to the following exception:
ForbiddenAddress: forbidden request from 98.87.45.8 to http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/basisOfRecord (resolves to IP 192.38.28.106), internal IP addresses are forbidden
I have no idea what that means, but all of this seems to mean that Darwin Core is currently "broken" from a Linked Data point of view.
Steve
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Hi Steve,
This resolvability is used by services like Sindice to figure out how to interpret the RDF.
As in this example:
http://sig.ma/search?pid=02c02e379a5b11a344ed7519ff198222
http://sig.ma/search?pid=02c02e379a5b11a344ed7519ff198222- Pete
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Steve Baskauf <steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu
wrote:
I was doing some GUID testing using a Linked Data client and I noticed that some Darwin Core terms did not seem to resolve to anything. I ran a test using http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/ http://api.talis.com/stores/iand-dev1/items/dipper.html http://www5.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/marbles/ and http://dataviewer.zitgist.com/ I first I looked up http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator and all four clients reported the properties of the term. Then I tried http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/basisOfRecord and nothing happened with any of them. I ran a Vapour http://validator.linkeddata.org/vapour validation on the basisOfRecord URI and got the following message:
Vapour was unable to complete the request due to the following exception:
ForbiddenAddress: forbidden request from 98.87.45.8 to http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/basisOfRecord (resolves to IP 192.38.28.106), internal IP addresses are forbidden
I have no idea what that means, but all of this seems to mean that Darwin Core is currently "broken" from a Linked Data point of view.
Steve
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