December 2006 - tdwg-tag - lists.tdwg.org

[Tdwg-guid] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal
by Roderic Page 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

The Open Access web-only journal "Phyloinformatics" seems to have disappeared, with the Internet address http://www.phyloinformatics.org now up for sale. This means the articles have just disappeared! There weren't many papers published, but some were interesting and have been cited in the mainstream literature. This also illustrates the problems with linking to digital resources using URLs, as opposed to identifiers such as DOIs. With the loss of the domain name, this journal has effectively died. A sobering lesson... Regards Rod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Professor Roderic D. M. Page Editor, Systematic Biology DEEB, IBLS Graham Kerr Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QP United Kingdom Phone: +44 141 330 4778 Fax: +44 141 330 2792 email: r.page(a)bio.gla.ac.uk web: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html iChat: aim://rodpage1962 reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html Subscribe to Systematic Biology through the Society of Systematic Biologists Website: http://systematicbiology.org Search for taxon names: http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/ Find out what we know about a species: http://ispecies.org Rod's rants on phyloinformatics: http://iphylo.blogspot.com Rod's rants on ants: http://semant.blogspot.com

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[tdwg-tapir] r787 - tapir/dev/schema
by svn＠rs.tdwg.org 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Author: RicardoPereira Date: 2006-12-19 12:22:48 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) New Revision: 787 Modified: tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd Log: Removed white spaces to test the new tdwg svn notification mechanism. Modified: tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd =================================================================== --- tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd 2006-12-19 11:15:11 UTC (rev 786) +++ tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd 2006-12-19 11:22:48 UTC (rev 787) @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ </xsd:complexType> <xsd:complexType name="languageAwareElementType"> <xsd:annotation> - <xsd:documentation> String with a language attribute. A type for elements that may be language specific.</xsd:documentation> + <xsd:documentation>String with a language attribute. A type for elements that may be language specific.</xsd:documentation> </xsd:annotation> <xsd:simpleContent> <xsd:extension base="xsd:string">

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New Constitution for TAG Interest Group
by Roger Hyam 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Hi All, A new process for managing TDWG subgroups and standards was accepted at the St Louis meeting in October. This new process defines Interest Groups which are persistent entities that spawn Task Groups which are ephemeral. You can read about this in more detail on the Process Wiki. http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Process/WebHome Previous subgroups now need to propose new charters following a new format if they wish to be constituted as Interest Groups under the new system. I have drafted a charter for the TAG Interest Group and would welcome any comments before submitting this to the Executive Committee. You can fined PDF and Word versions of it on the wiki. http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/WebHome I don't believe there is anything controversial in here but you may think otherwise. Is so please place you comments on NewCharterComments on the wiki or mail me an edited version of the word document - with track changes turned on. The wiki is looking dated and needs a good spring cleaning which I am just embarking on. Please let me know if there is anything that you think should be included. All the best, Roger

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[tdwg-tapir] TAPIR Developers Workshop
by Renato De Giovanni 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

TDWG and GBIF Call for participation TAPIR Developers Workshop The aim of the workshop is to advance the deployment of the TAPIR protocol and augment its community. TAPIR, the TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval, is being actively developed. There is a draft specification (http://www.tdwg.org/dav/subgroups/tapir/1.0/docs/) and a fully functional data provider available (http://www.pywrapper.org/). By the end of 2006 another data provider implementation and a TAPIR Network Builder's Guide should also be available. The workshop will start with a training session and will be followed by hands-on development sessions in separate work groups. Outcomes of the workshop will include: * Explanation of the main features and concepts of TAPIR to new developers. * Amendments to the existing TAPIR documentation where needed. * Development (at least partially) of new TAPIR client software including libraries and specific data harvesters to be used by biodiversity data networks. * Discussion, implementation and documenting LSID resolution service in existing TAPIR provider software. * Creation of a generic query tool to interact with TAPIR providers. * Creation of new output models and query templates to be used by TAPIR networks. * Planning and implementation of interoperability unit tests for TAPIR providers. * Production of additional development proposals related to TAPIR. Dates: 12th to 15th of February 2007 Venue: GBIF, Copenhagen How to participate: Please contact Renato De Giovanni (renato [at] cria dot org dot br) before December 31st 2006 providing the following information: * Your name, institution and location. * What kind of development(s) you are planning or need to do in relation to TAPIR (what are the basic functionalities needed, what is the associated project, what is the expected timeline). * Whether your project/institution can help with the funding of your participation in this meeting. Attendance is limited and participants will be prioritised according to the contribution they can make. Support funding: All travel expenses for approved attendees will be covered by the TDWG Infrastructure Project (which in turn has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation). Travel will be in accordance with the GBIF travel guidelines (http://www.gbif.org/Support/travel). For further information please contact Renato De Giovanni (renato [at] cria dot org dot br), Donald Hobern (dhobern [at] gbif dot org) or Lee Belbin (lee [at] tdwg dot org).

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Re: [Tdwg-guid] [Taxacom] Species Pages & OpenSearch
by Roderic Page 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

This is nice, but (I know, there's always a "but"), there are two parts to the story. The first is providing a simple means to query the database, which is what OpenSearch provides. The second is the form the results take. Unfortunately, many OpenSearch providers serve RSS 2.0 or Atom feeds, which are very limited in the information they contain, and don't lend themselves to aggregation in the way that RDF does (i.e., RSS 1.0). For the curious, I discuss this in more detail here: http://ispecies.blogspot.com/2006/12/open-search-and-nearctic- spider.html If we combine OpenSearch with RSS 1.0 and some simple, agreed vocabularies, then I think we would be well on the way to being able to aggregate biodiversity data which much greater ease than at present. Regards Rod On 1 Dec 2006, at 18:47, Shorthouse, David wrote: > Folks, > > > > I'm curious how many institutions provide species pages as part of > their web > services & if there has been any attempt to programmatically register > providers of these (i.e. akin to GBIF's UDDI for collection/observation > record providers). > > > > I have alerted a few folks to this (apologies if you already received > it) & > normally I don't pay any attention to commercial web applications, but > I am > extremely impressed with an outfit out of Australia called "Zoom > Search": > http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/. Just yesterday they released a new > version > that can spit out XML/RSS output as results from a conducted search, > which > means this opens the door to OpenSearch aggregators. NCBI, GBIF, > Discover > Life, Rod Page & his iSpecies, etc. ought to be very interested in > this. The > XML output is obtained as a minor change to a query string; otherwise, > search results for in-house species pages and the like are fully > css-formatted result pages using a configurable template. > > > > Cheers, > > > > David P. Shorthouse > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Department of Biological Sciences > > CW-403, Biological Sciences Centre > > University of Alberta > > Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9 > > Phone: 1-780-492-3080 > > mailto:dps1@ualberta.ca > > http://canadianarachnology.webhop.net > > http://arachnidforum.webhop.net > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Taxacom mailing list > Taxacom(a)mailman.nhm.ku.edu > http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Professor Roderic D. M. Page Editor, Systematic Biology DEEB, IBLS Graham Kerr Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QP United Kingdom Phone: +44 141 330 4778 Fax: +44 141 330 2792 email: r.page(a)bio.gla.ac.uk web: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html iChat: aim://rodpage1962 reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html Subscribe to Systematic Biology through the Society of Systematic Biologists Website: http://systematicbiology.org Search for taxon names: http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/ Find out what we know about a species: http://ispecies.org Rod's rants on phyloinformatics: http://iphylo.blogspot.com Rod's rants on ants: http://semant.blogspot.com

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