Hi Kevin

I think there are a few initial stabs at RDF versions of TCS out there, in addition to Roger's, Donald has been working on a simple one for some of TCS and Rob Gales has also been working on one. As part of the work being done on TCS we will issue one, so will look at the different versions and then publish one but as we're only working on prototypes for the time being you could use any. If Roger publishes the one he's working on next week I'd use that and then we'll announce any updates through the lists.

Jessie

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From: Taxonomic Databases Working Group GUID Project [mailto:TDWG-GUID@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Hyam Sent: 09 March 2006 09:43 To: TDWG-GUID@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU Subject: Re: Index Fungorum LSID Authority

Hi Kevin,

I am working on an RDF version of TCS TaxonNames but not showing it to anyone just yet! I'll let you know when I have something worth talking about - next week some time I suspect. I hope this will be a kick off point for talking about it in the TCS community so it won't be stable but I hope it will be something for demonstration purposes.

We could consider using the accepted_formats parameter of getMetadata to offer a two flavours of metadata in the mean time. (Possible RDF by default and 'xmlSchema' for the XML Schema based form.) If we did this we would still need to have conventions in place such as whether to always include the schema location in the XML or not.

Great to know you have got it working.

Roger

Kevin Richards wrote:

I have finished setting up an LSID authority for Index Fungorum names. For more details about this task, see the wiki at http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDResolverForTaxonNamesI F

An example lsid is urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:213645. More LSIDs can be found by searching the indexfungorum names on the IF web site http://www.indexfungorum.org http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm .

The authority currently serves up exactly the same basic xml that is served by the IF web service (see http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm). The same xml is returned for both the metadata and the data at this stage - the LSID data will change later to something that we decide is the "unchangeable set of bytes" for a particular taxon name.

As the return format is not RDF, this means that the metadata and data returned is not viewable by using IE Launchpad. However if you use launchpad it saves the metadata to the cache directory and you can view this file. The plugin for Firefox seems a little more verbose and allows you to save the data and metadata to a location of your choice when downloading the LSID info. Go to

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130827 for Firefox plugin.

The next step will be to return a more usefule format - RDF based on the TCS schema seems to be the desired option. I'm not sure how to approach this if anyone has any suggestions (ie the RDF version of TCS)? As it is a prototype, I could add "dummy" RDF predicates for the TCS elements required for an IF name, eg "http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple ", or create real temprary ones such as "urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:predicates:123" specifically for IF. Anyone with more RDF experience have any suggestions?

Kevin Richards

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