[tdwg-guid] First step in implementing LSIDs
Bob Morris
morris.bob at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 23:02:28 CEST 2007
Is the http proxy a GUID?
What vouches for an assertion that a given proxy actually resolves the
associated LSID?
On 6/12/07, Kevin Richards <RichardsK at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
> The main use of the LSID http proxy would be when you have an RDF document
> or a triple store full of data that has BOTH the LSID and the http version
> (as described on the wiki page
> http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/GUID/LsidHttpProxyUsageRecommendation).
>
> If ALL you had was the LSID
> "URN:LSID:landcareresearch.co.nz:Names:0F9D60F1-59C7-495D-A37E-09C23770DD18"
> and no other data at all, and you want to resolve it using the http proxy,
> then yes you are a bit stuck (as far as I know). Unless we set up an LSID
> http proxy repository that can be queried and returns the http proxy url for
> an LSID? Or you could just use the "hard coded" http proxy resolver at
> http:/lsid.tdwg.org/[lsid].
>
> Kevin
>
> >>> "Gregor Hagedorn" <G.Hagedorn at BBA.DE> 12/06/2007 7:17:35 p.m. >>>
>
> > For those wanting another LSID http proxy example, I have changed our
> > LSID resolver here at Landcare to serve up the proxy compliant RDF.
> >
> > Eg
> >
> http://lsid.landcareresearch.co.nz/lsid/URN:LSID:landcareresearch.co.nz:Names:0F9D60F1-59C7-495D-A37E-09C23770DD18
> >
> > returns the metadata for the lsid
> >
> URN:LSID:landcareresearch.co.nz:Names:0F9D60F1-59C7-495D-A37E-09C23770DD18
> >
> > I took me about an hour to change the RDF generator and setup a
> > redirection web directory on our web server (Microsoft IIS).
>
> I have an object with
>
> URN:LSID:landcareresearch.co.nz:Names:0F9D60F1-59C7-495D-A37E-09C23770DD18
>
> I think the problem is that, without me telling my software something I have
> gathered from this email, my software has no means to know about what you
> describe as easy.
>
> Unless it has an LSID resolver, in which case it would not need the http
> method.
>
> This is what the proposal to always use alternating http and LSID guids in
> any
> object we communicate about is saying. Whenever you publish
> URN:LSID:landcareresearch.co.nz:Names:0F9D60F1-59C7-495D-A37E-09C23770DD18
> you
> also have to provide the http version of it.
>
> Gregor----------------------------------------------------------
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> Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
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