Index Fungorum LSID Authority
Roger Hyam
roger at TDWG.ORG
Thu Mar 9 09:42:43 CET 2006
Hi Kevin,
I am working on an RDF version of TCS TaxonNames but not showing it to
anyone just yet! I'll let you know when I have something worth talking
about - next week some time I suspect. I hope this will be a kick off
point for talking about it in the TCS community so it won't be stable
but I hope it will be something for demonstration purposes.
We could consider using the accepted_formats parameter of getMetadata to
offer a two flavours of metadata in the mean time. (Possible RDF by
default and 'xmlSchema' for the XML Schema based form.) If we did this
we would still need to have conventions in place such as whether to
always include the schema location in the XML or not.
Great to know you have got it working.
Roger
Kevin Richards wrote:
> I have finished setting up an LSID authority for Index Fungorum
> names. For more details about this task, see the wiki at
> http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDResolverForTaxonNamesIF
> An example lsid is urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:213645. More
> LSIDs can be found by searching the indexfungorum names on the IF web
> site http://www.indexfungorum.org
> <http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm>.
>
> The authority currently serves up exactly the same basic xml that is
> served by the IF web service (see
> http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm). The same
> xml is returned for both the metadata and the data at this stage - the
> LSID data will change later to something that we decide is the
> "unchangeable set of bytes" for a particular taxon name.
> As the return format is not RDF, this means that the metadata and data
> returned is not viewable by using IE Launchpad. However if you use
> launchpad it saves the metadata to the cache directory and you can
> view this file. The plugin for Firefox seems a little more verbose
> and allows you to save the data and metadata to a location of your
> choice when downloading the LSID info. Go to
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130827 for
> Firefox plugin.
>
> The next step will be to return a more usefule format - RDF based on
> the TCS schema seems to be the desired option. I'm not sure how to
> approach this if anyone has any suggestions (ie the RDF version of
> TCS)? As it is a prototype, I could add "dummy" RDF predicates for
> the TCS elements required for an IF name, eg
> "http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple
> <http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple>", or
> create real temprary ones such as
> "urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:predicates:123" specifically for IF.
> Anyone with more RDF experience have any suggestions?
>
> Kevin Richards
>
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Hi Kevin,<br>
<br>
I am working on an RDF version of TCS TaxonNames but not showing it to
anyone just yet! I'll let you know when I have something worth talking
about - next week some time I suspect. I hope this will be a kick off
point for talking about it in the TCS community so it won't be stable
but I hope it will be something for demonstration purposes.<br>
<br>
We could consider using the accepted_formats parameter of getMetadata
to offer a two flavours of metadata in the mean time. (Possible RDF by
default and 'xmlSchema' for the XML Schema based form.) If we did this
we would still need to have conventions in place such as whether to
always include the schema location in the XML or not.<br>
<br>
Great to know you have got it working.<br>
<br>
Roger<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Kevin Richards wrote:
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<div>I have finished setting up an LSID authority for Index Fungorum
names. For more details about this task, see the wiki at <a
href="http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDResolverForTaxonNamesIF">http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDResolverForTaxonNamesIF</a></div>
<div>An example lsid is urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:213645.
More LSIDs can be found by searching the indexfungorum names on the IF
web site <a
href="http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm">http://www.indexfungorum.org</a>.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The authority currently serves up exactly the same basic xml
that is served by the IF web service (see <a
href="http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm">http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/IndexFungorumLSIDs.htm</a>).
The same xml is returned for both the metadata and the data at this
stage - the LSID data will change later to something that we decide is
the "unchangeable set of bytes" for a particular taxon name.</div>
<div>As the return format is not RDF, this means that the metadata
and data returned is not viewable by using IE Launchpad. However if
you use launchpad it saves the metadata to the cache directory and you
can view this file. The plugin for Firefox seems a little more verbose
and allows you to save the data and metadata to a location of your
choice when downloading the LSID info. Go to
<div><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130827">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130827</a> for
Firefox plugin.</div>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The next step will be to return a more usefule format - RDF
based on the TCS schema seems to be the desired option. I'm not sure
how to approach this if anyone has any suggestions (ie the RDF version
of TCS)? As it is a prototype, I could add "dummy" RDF predicates for
the TCS elements required for an IF name, eg <a
href="http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple">"http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/tcs/1.01/ScientificName/Simple</a>",
or create real temprary ones such as
"urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:predicates:123" specifically for IF.
Anyone with more RDF experience have any suggestions?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Kevin Richards</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
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Roger Hyam
Technical Architect
Taxonomic Databases Working Group
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:roger at tdwg.org">roger at tdwg.org</a>
+44 1578 722782
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