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

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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 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.