[tdwg-content] DwC Examples, and Question

[Richard Pyle]

Note, you'll have to fix the truncated URLs if you want to click on them.

Rich 

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> [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:45 AM
> To: '"Markus Döring (GBIF)"'
> Cc: tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org; 'Roger Hyam'
> Subject: [tdwg-content] DwC Examples, and Question
> 
> 
> OK, thanks.  I'll start by generating the zoological 
> Nomenclatural example, using real ZooBank records.  Following 
> your lead on the Species Checklist example, I'll create one 
> normalized version, and one demoralized. If no one else on 
> this list can generate a real example for the botanical 
> and/or bacteriological Code, then I'll see if I can make one. 
> I just can't give it resolvable GUIDs (yet).  By early 2011, 
> we should have a functional instance of GNUB, at which time 
> I'll swap out the examples to that.
> 
> As the subject line indicates, I also have a question:
> 
> At the moment, the ZooBank HTTP proxy only resolves to 
> human-readable HTML:
> http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:68376390-7809-46FF
> -9EC4-1371B4AA
> D0FF
> 
> However, later today I want to modify the site to redirect 
> appropriate requests to RDF:
> http://zoobank.org/authority/metadata/?lsid=urn:lsid:zoobank.o
rg:pub:6837639
> 0-7809-46FF-9EC4-1371B4AAD0FF
> 
> My understanding is that several people have opted for a 
> solution that uses HTTP_USER_AGENT to determine whether the 
> client is a browser vs. some other app, and if a browser then 
> return HTML, and if another app then return RDF.
> 
> My question is: is this an acceptable (interim) solution?  Or 
> is there a better way to deal with this?  Yes, I know what we 
> should probably do is return XML with a stylesheet, but that 
> will take me more than this afternoon to implement.
> 
> Please forgive me if I've just revealed and/or emphasized how 
> uneducated I am as a web developer....
> 
> Aloha,
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Markus Döring (GBIF)" [mailto:mdoering at gbif.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:17 AM
> > To: Richard Pyle
> > Cc: tuco at berkeley.edu; tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org; 'Roger Hyam'; 
> > tdwg-bioblitz at googlegroups.com; 'Jerry Cooper'
> > Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] What I learned at the TechnoBioBlitz
> > 
> > > Maybe we should start with term-value pairs, but I think it
> > would also
> > > be useful to render each in XML and RDF as well.
> > technology specific examples are surely needed at some point. 
> > Once we have a set of key value pair examples we could 
> translate them 
> > into xml, rdf and csv so we have the same data in various formats.
> > 
> > The trouble with RDF though is that we dont yet have any 
> guidelines. 
> > Once Steve et al have settled on something we can then take the rdf 
> > examples forward.
> > 
> > > 
> > >> what about a nomenclatural example, maybe separate ones
> > for each code?
> > > 
> > > Yes, I'll get on it tomorrow (today is a full schecule).
> > > 
> > > I notice the existing examples don't use GUIDs.  Is that
> > intentional,
> > > or should I use actual examples with resolbavle GUIDs?
> > 
> > Do whatever you have as real data examples. If you happen to have 
> > guids in gnub or alike thats brilliant.
> > There is a recommendation to use guids for ids, but its no 
> > requirement. Most datasources dont have guids and there is 
> no need to 
> > forces them. The example I used for mammal species of the world is 
> > real data - and they dont have guids.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Rich
> > > 
> > > 
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