April 2008 - tdwg-tag - lists.tdwg.org

[tdwg-tapir] Tapir protocol - Harvest methods?
by Phil Cryer 14 May '08

14 May '08

Just starting with Tapir/DiGIR - I have 2 questions: * I would like to know if the Tapir protocol is the preferred method over DiGIR. We have a DiGIR implementation that we want to move away from, and bring up a Tapir one in its place. Is this normal, or do organizations run both to facilitate their older clients to do harvesting? * What is a method to harvest data from Tapir, and/or DiGIR - we want to do this internally to test our implementation before we open up to the world, how can I do this (we run Windows and Linux as clients) Thank you Phil -- Phil Cryer Open Source Development Missouri Botanical Garden

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[tdwg-tapir] TapirLink 0.6
by Renato De Giovanni 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Dear all, First I would like to say thanks to all of those who helped with tests and suggestions. TapirLink 0.6 is finally available for download: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38190&package_id=217… For those who have installed from Subversion (the preferred way) you can update your local copies using the corresponding revision number: 660. This release contains many bugfixes and improvements, and makes TapirLink fully compatible with recent changes in the protocol. You can find the complete changelog here: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=38190&release_id=596… In the next releases, I would like to finally focus on code clean up, performance improvements and memory footprint reduction. Happy data sharing, -- Renato

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[tdwg-tapir] Looking for beta testers
by Renato De Giovanni 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Dear all, I've been making lots of changes in TapirLink during the last months. This time, before releasing a new version I would like to know if there are any beta testers willing to help. If there's anyone interested, please follow these steps and then contact me with the results: 1- Install the latest TapirLink code: a- If you want to test with an existing installation (installed with Subversion), update you local copy (svn update) and, just in case, make a backup of your "config" directory. b- If you want to test with a new installation, check out the latest TapirLink code from the following address using a Subversion client: https://digir.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/digir/tapirlink/trunk 2- Check the configuration (admin/configurator.php): a- When testing an existing installation, go through all configuration sections of your resource to make sure there are no error messages or missing configurations. You'll then need to save you mappings again (just click on "save") to overwrite the capabilities template, and in some cases (older installations) you'll also need to save your metadata again. You'll always be warned in the front page of your resource when you need to overwrite one of these templates. b- When testing a new installation, just add a new resource and go through all configuration steps. 3- Run tests: Make sure your provider is accessible from outside and then run the general test suite on it to see if there are any errors: http://tapir.tdwg.org/tester/ Many thanks! -- Renato

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TCS-RDF validation
by Markus Döring 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Dear tags, ETI & GBIF is working on a software that wants to produce TCS as RDF documents. The question the developers are facing now is how can they test and make sure that the resulting RDF is "valid" according to the ontology? Validation for the syntactical correctness of RDF can be done, but validation against OWL, does that work? Can you check that all the URIs used in the RDF instances are defined in a certain ontology for example? And should TDWG maybe provide a conformance test for all its standards, maybe even requiring such a test for a standard before it is accepted? In particular I wonder if anyone has experience with the following tools or knows about others? Maybe Protege has something to offer too? http://jena.sourceforge.net/Eyeball/brief.html http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/VRP/index.html thanks, Markus

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Re: [tdwg-tag] TDWG TAG - meetings at Fremantle
by Kevin Richards 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

I am certainly keen for a meeting (if I can get funding to attend - no guarantees yet). I would like to know where to from here for the TAG group, and how we can keep it moving without the funding. Do we keep pushing the LSID, RDF, vocabs thing, or relax and let the others catch up first ;). Protcols are going well, I feel, with majoF and EOL. Kevin >>> "Roger Hyam (TDWG)" <rogerhyam(a)mac.com> 04/17/08 10:23 PM >>> Dear TAG, Apologies if this list has been quiet for the past few months. I am currently involved in implementing the http://www.BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org and so haven't had a chance to push things along in the TDWG architecture realm. Arrangements are beginning to be made for the TDWG 2008 meeting in Fremantle, Australia on 19th to 25th October. http://www.tdwg.org/conference2008/ As a group the TAG need to decide how we can be most effectively use this meeting. I presume a subgroup meeting would be good but should it be at the beginning or end of the conference? How do we handle clashes with all the other activities that we will be involved in? I will not be able to put too much time into TAG logistics as in previous years so we will have to work as a group more - which is a good thing. Any offers of help and suggestions would therefore be even more gratefully received than normal. It is also a responsibility of the TAG to produce a Roadmap for the year ahead before the meeting. Your thoughts on Fremantle and the year ahead would be gratefully received. Firstly I would like to hear from people who will be attending the meeting and want to be involved in the TAG activities. Many thanks, Roger ------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Hyam Roger(a)BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org http://www.BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org ------------------------------------------------------------- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR, UK Tel: +44 131 552 7171 ext 3015 Fax: +44 131 248 2901 http://www.rbge.org.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WARNING: This email and any attachments may be confidential and/or privileged. They are intended for the addressee only and are not to be read, used, copied or disseminated by anyone receiving them in error. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by return email and delete this message and any attachments. The views expressed in this email are those of the sender and do not necessarily reflect the official views of Landcare Research. http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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TDWG TAG - meetings at Fremantle
by Roger Hyam (TDWG) 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Dear TAG, Apologies if this list has been quiet for the past few months. I am currently involved in implementing the http://www.BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org and so haven't had a chance to push things along in the TDWG architecture realm. Arrangements are beginning to be made for the TDWG 2008 meeting in Fremantle, Australia on 19th to 25th October. http://www.tdwg.org/conference2008/ As a group the TAG need to decide how we can be most effectively use this meeting. I presume a subgroup meeting would be good but should it be at the beginning or end of the conference? How do we handle clashes with all the other activities that we will be involved in? I will not be able to put too much time into TAG logistics as in previous years so we will have to work as a group more - which is a good thing. Any offers of help and suggestions would therefore be even more gratefully received than normal. It is also a responsibility of the TAG to produce a Roadmap for the year ahead before the meeting. Your thoughts on Fremantle and the year ahead would be gratefully received. Firstly I would like to hear from people who will be attending the meeting and want to be involved in the TAG activities. Many thanks, Roger ------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Hyam Roger(a)BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org http://www.BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org ------------------------------------------------------------- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR, UK Tel: +44 131 552 7171 ext 3015 Fax: +44 131 248 2901 http://www.rbge.org.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------

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[tdwg-tapir] r1378 - tapir/dev/schema
by svn＠rs.tdwg.org 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Author: RenatoDeGiovanni Date: 2008-04-10 00:19:59 +0200 (Thu, 10 Apr 2008) New Revision: 1378 Modified: tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd Log: Removed concept name servers from capabilities response. Modified: tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd =================================================================== --- tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd 2008-03-30 19:02:10 UTC (rev 1377) +++ tapir/dev/schema/tapir.xsd 2008-04-09 22:19:59 UTC (rev 1378) @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:vcard="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#" elementFormDefault="qualified" - attributeFormDefault="unqualified" version="1.0.6" xml:lang="EN" > + attributeFormDefault="unqualified" version="1.0.7" xml:lang="EN" > <xsd:annotation> <xsd:documentation xml:lang="en"> TAPIR XML Schema. TAPIR is an acronym for TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval. @@ -1016,22 +1016,6 @@ </xsd:annotation> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> - <xsd:element name="conceptNameServers"> - <xsd:annotation> - <xsd:documentation>The location of the alias file or - ConceptNameServer to define simple aliases for fully qualified - concept ids.</xsd:documentation> - </xsd:annotation> - <xsd:complexType> - <xsd:sequence> - <xsd:element name="server" type="externalResourceType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> - <xsd:annotation> - <xsd:documentation>Multiple servers allowed. Ordered list with the first server(s) having priority over the following ones.</xsd:documentation> - </xsd:annotation> - </xsd:element> - </xsd:sequence> - </xsd:complexType> - </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="schema" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:documentation>Namespace and location of a supported

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