[tdwg-tapir] tapir clients?
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Hi Tapirologists,
There's the PyWrapper and TapirLink for the server side of the protocol, but I was wondering if:
a) there's other server implementations and b) what client implementations are out there
It might be worthwhile starting a "Software" page on the wiki to provide pointers to the various projects implementing TAPIR.
cheers, Dave V.
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Hi Dave,
There was a hidden page about TAPIR software somewhere in the wiki. I've just included a link to it in the front page, but you won't find any news there - those are the two provider implementations that we have so far.
We are also looking for client software (we need more hands!). Some people demonstrated special interest for developing a TAPIR harvester during the last workshop, so there may be some news in this area soon. I also suggested the DiGIR project at sourceforge as a collaborative environment for new developments, since most people are already registered there.
If you're just looking for a quick way of interacting with providers, both PyWrapper and TapirLink come with a simple query interface. In TapirLink it's the tapir_client.php inside www. There's a test instance here:
http://test.cria.org.br/tapirlink/tapir_client.php
Best regards, -- Renato
Hi Tapirologists,
There's the PyWrapper and TapirLink for the server side of the protocol, but I was wondering if:
a) there's other server implementations and b) what client implementations are out there
It might be worthwhile starting a "Software" page on the wiki to provide pointers to the various projects implementing TAPIR.
cheers, Dave V.
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There are also some test databases mapped to the new Darwin Core, Geospatial, and Curatorial extensions here:
http://128.32.146.144/tapir/tapir.php/MVZDwC (big ~700,000 records)
and here
http://128.32.146.144/tapir/tapir.php/NMMNHMammalsDwC (small 5067 records)
Please don't hurt them badly, they are real providers.
Cheers, John
2007/2/27, Renato De Giovanni renato@cria.org.br:
Hi Dave,
There was a hidden page about TAPIR software somewhere in the wiki. I've just included a link to it in the front page, but you won't find any news there - those are the two provider implementations that we have so far.
We are also looking for client software (we need more hands!). Some people demonstrated special interest for developing a TAPIR harvester during the last workshop, so there may be some news in this area soon. I also suggested the DiGIR project at sourceforge as a collaborative environment for new developments, since most people are already registered there.
If you're just looking for a quick way of interacting with providers, both PyWrapper and TapirLink come with a simple query interface. In TapirLink it's the tapir_client.php inside www. There's a test instance here:
http://test.cria.org.br/tapirlink/tapir_client.php
Best regards,
Renato
Hi Tapirologists,
There's the PyWrapper and TapirLink for the server side of the protocol, but I was wondering if:
a) there's other server implementations and b) what client implementations are out there
It might be worthwhile starting a "Software" page on the wiki to provide pointers to the various projects implementing TAPIR.
cheers, Dave V.
tdwg-tapir mailing list tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tapir
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Hi Donald,
This is excellent news!
Two quick questions:
* For providers that want to migrate to TAPIR and already have data indexed by GBIF from previous DiGIR/BioCASe instances, what will be the recommended procedure? (will it be necessary to re-index everything or is there an easy re-configuration process on the GBIF side?). Do they need to contact GBIF to specify both the new TAPIR accesspoint and the old one that will be replaced or is there a way to do this just by interacting with the UDDI registry?
* On the web pages where GBIF lists providers, BioCASe/ABCD ones are marked with a special flag. Can you do the same for TAPIR providers when they start to pop up?
Best Regards, -- Renato
The new GBIF data portal can index data provided using TAPIR with
Dwc/Geo/Cur or ABCD 1.20/2.05/2.06.
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Or you could flag all of the DiGIR ones and leave TAPIR ones unflagged, the idea being that TAPIR is the common goal toward which to strive.
2007/2/28, Renato De Giovanni renato@cria.org.br:
Hi Donald,
This is excellent news!
Two quick questions:
- For providers that want to migrate to TAPIR and already have data
indexed by GBIF from previous DiGIR/BioCASe instances, what will be the recommended procedure? (will it be necessary to re-index everything or is there an easy re-configuration process on the GBIF side?). Do they need to contact GBIF to specify both the new TAPIR accesspoint and the old one that will be replaced or is there a way to do this just by interacting with the UDDI registry?
- On the web pages where GBIF lists providers, BioCASe/ABCD ones are
marked with a special flag. Can you do the same for TAPIR providers when they start to pop up?
Best Regards,
Renato
The new GBIF data portal can index data provided using TAPIR with
Dwc/Geo/Cur or ABCD 1.20/2.05/2.06.
tdwg-tapir mailing list tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tapir
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Dave,
Most TAPIR providers will be able to return RDF and so any semantic web client is a potential TAPIR client. They won't necessarily run SPARQL queries but they will certainly associate URLs with RDF content.
My plan is to produce RDF output models even for the providers who haven't mapped the TDWG ontology.
There is a bit of discussion here:
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/LsidVocsUsage
This is my cunning plan ;)
Roger
On 27 Feb 2007, at 22:52, Dave Vieglais wrote:
Hi Tapirologists,
There's the PyWrapper and TapirLink for the server side of the protocol, but I was wondering if:
a) there's other server implementations and b) what client implementations are out there
It might be worthwhile starting a "Software" page on the wiki to provide pointers to the various projects implementing TAPIR.
cheers, Dave V. _______________________________________________ tdwg-tapir mailing list tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tapir
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Dave Vieglais
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Donald Hobern
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John R. WIECZOREK
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Renato De Giovanni
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Roger Hyam