[tdwg-tapir] TaxonAPI
Dave Vieglais
vieglais at ku.edu
Mon Nov 28 18:40:20 CET 2005
Hi Roger,
You might also like to examine
http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TOSAPISignatures
The interfaces and implementation have been developed as part of the SEEK project.
regards,
Dave V.
Roger Hyam wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have been doing some work on a TaxonAPI. This is a high/low definition
> of the kind of thing I believe people publishing taxonomic data need to
> produce and people consuming it need to eat based on the work I have
> been involved in on TCS.
>
> It is framed as if it were a web service type of thing but I imagine
> that each of the method calls mentioned could equate to a Tapir template
> of some kind. I imagine a template containing a parameterized filter
> (not sure if those exist anymore).
>
> This is still work in progress as I need to define the list of
> parameters more closely and sort the greater than/less than issue for
> dates and a few other bits. Plus no one has seen it to comment on!
>
> You can read more about it here:
>
> http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TIP/TaxonAPI
>
> I would be most grateful for your comments.
>
> How does this fit with Tapir?
>
> Roger
>
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