[Tdwg-guid] Which TCS/RDF?

["Döring, Markus"]

Roger,
I was rather thinking about different ways of serializing RDF. RDF/XML is just one way of expressing RDF and I would like to know if LSIDs (or TDWG) specifies that RDF/XML should be used. If a service is free to pick, a RDF framework, in contrast to templates, could probably easily return different formats for the same RDF graph.
 
Markus
 

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	From: rogerhyam at googlemail.com [mailto:rogerhyam at googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Roger Hyam
	Sent: Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 11:53
	To: Döring, Markus
	Cc: Steve Perry; peter.hollas at thomson.com; tdwg-guid at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
	Subject: Re: [Tdwg-guid] Which TCS/RDF?
	
	
	Hi Markus,
	
	The LSID spec suggests that RDF is the default return type but you can request different formats. We would just need to agree on names for the formats.
	
	Thinking from a clients point of view consistency is the most important thing I guess especially if the data is going to be mixed with data from other sources. It would be far easier to write a client to handle just RDF than to handle RDF plus arbitrary other formats  - perhaps with a plug in infrastructure etc etc. 
	
	All the best,
	
	Roger
	
	
	
	
	On 9/28/06, "Döring, Markus" <m.doering at bgbm.org> wrote: 

		Hi,
		I was wondering if the LSID specs require you to return RDF/XML. Could a service also return (or even request?) Turtle, N-Triple, RDFa or whatever comes next year? 
		
		It would be costly to switch formats using a templating system, so I am just curious.
		
		Markus
		
		
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		From: tdwg-guid-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:tdwg-guid-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Perry
		Sent: Dienstag, 26. September 2006 18:12
		To: peter.hollas at thomson.com
		Cc: tdwg-guid at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
		Subject: Re: [Tdwg-guid] Which TCS/RDF?
		
		
		Hi Peter,
		
		I was just writing a response to your question about Jena, but I'll 
		scrap it now.  Unfortunately there's no standard representation for TCS
		in RDF at this time.  Hopefully there will be one in the near future.
		
		Jena is well suited to consuming RDF metadata, but I agree with you that 
		it's a bit heavyweight if all you want to do is produce many instances
		of a single class.
		
		Visualizing the problem as one of templating and using Spring MVC is a
		neat approach.  I use Spring mostly for dependency injection and hadn't 
		considered that it might be used to isolate this kind of software from
		changes in the schema.
		
		-Steve
		
		
		
		peter.hollas at thomson.com wrote:
		> Hi,
		>
		> Could someone advise on which TCS/RDF ontology would be the best to
		> implement for metadata coming from nomenclatural sources such as
		> ZooBank? I've yet to come across anything other than a TCS XML Schema 
		> in public circulation.
		>
		> I've decided to do away with using the Jena API altogether for
		> returning metadata responses from ZooBank; it seems to be rather heavy
		> handed approach to returning what is basically a simple structured 
		> text document. A much more flexible way to go is with a page
		> templating system, especially when the schemata are in constant flux.
		> A Spring Framework MVC/JSTL endpoint will allow for schemata changes 
		> to be implemented without recompilation. The LSID metadata class will
		> just act as a façade/decorator to the templating system.
		>
		> Many thanks, Peter.
		>
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