Tomas, you can do that with a capabilities request. Wouter _____ From: tdwg-tapir-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tapir-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of bar tomas Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 1:53 PM To: tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-tapir] Requesting available darwin core elements from dataprovider Hi, Is there a way to request from a tapir data provider which optional elements of the darwin core schema are actually implemented by the provider in question. I mean, if I understood correctly only a small subset of the Darwin Core are required (GlobalUniqueIdentifier,DateLastModified,BasisOfRecord,InstitutionCode,Colle ctionCode,CatalogNumber,ScientificName). It would be nice to know what optional elments a given provider implements before formulating a search request to that provider (for instance, whether information defined in the IslandGroup element is available). The metadata response does not provide this information, I think. Thanks a lot. Tomas bar

Thanks very much. That's exactly what I need. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Kevin Richards < RichardsK@landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:

The capabilities operation gives you this.

http://...?op=c <http://.../?op=c>

eg http://lsid.herbimi.info/tapirdotnet/tapir.aspx/herbimi?op=c

Kevin

*From:* tdwg-tapir-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto: tdwg-tapir-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] *On Behalf Of *bar tomas *Sent:* Friday, 28 November 2008 1:53 a.m. *To:* tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org *Subject:* [tdwg-tapir] Requesting available darwin core elements from data provider

Hi,

Is there a way to request from a tapir data provider which optional elements of the darwin core schema are actually implemented by the provider in question. I mean, if I understood correctly only a small subset of the Darwin Core are required (GlobalUniqueIdentifier,DateLastModified,BasisOfRecord,InstitutionCode,CollectionCode,CatalogNumber,ScientificName). It would be nice to know what optional elments a given provider implements before formulating a search request to that provider (for instance, whether information defined in the IslandGroup element is available).

The metadata response does not provide this information, I think.

Thanks a lot.

Tomas bar

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