[Tcs-lc] beyond schema design

[Roger Hyam]

I think this is where I come in!

I believe it is my remit to come up with some demo applications over the 
next couple of months (Insha'allah).

The idea is to serve TCS with the new Tapir protocol. As I get the data 
sources working with the Tapir protocol I intend to write a kind of 
proof of concept client to help with testing the querying of a TCS data 
source. This will probably be a XSLT base thing that simply renders the 
responses in different ways. It may form a prototype for more 
sophisticated (and productized) applications or it may just end up as a 
development tool. The whole thing is intended to be a resource for 
anyone else who may want to play with using the schema for whatever.

 From a GBIF perspective we would then be in a position to see how we 
might index such resources, what we register in the UDDI etc.

Note the use of the words "may", "intend" and "probably" in the above. 
Your mileage may vary but I certainly will produce something!

Roger


Paul Kirk wrote:

> There are currently four standards up for review by TDWG and these can 
> be split into two categories - two with real world implementations and 
> two without. DC2 has DiGIR and ADCD2 has BioCASE; SDD and TCS have no 
> equivalents.
>
>  
>
> The whole TCS-LC arena, outside the discussions of the internal 
> structure of the schema, is a bit of a chicken and egg scenario - 
> users (outside taxonomy) want the tools to analyse TCS documents and 
> we need the TSC before we can develop the tools, but we also need the 
> tools to show that the TCS can answer some user specific question.
>
>  
>
> TCS-LC needs a proof of concept real world tool. It's fine producing 
> TCS-LC documents for a few datasets to show that the schema supports 
> certain types of data sets but what we really need to 'sell' TCS-LC is 
> a simple tool that can take a couple of these documents and generate a 
> report. For example, a small subset of a couple of national checklists 
> (one genus with 5-10 species) where there is some overlap; i.e. names 
> present in both checklists but in different contexts, e.g. one name 
> recognized as a good species in one checklist but as a synonmy in the 
> other.
>
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>
> Is it beyond the realms of possibility that such a simple tool, even 
> if it's somewhat 'stage managed', can be easily developed?
>  
> Paul
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>  
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