[Tcs-lc] beyond schema design

Roger Hyam roger at hyam.net
Fri Apr 1 02:48:09 PST 2005


As a P.S. to that post I should of course add that SEEK are already 
using a version of the schema so the egg has, in fact, already started 
to hatch!

Roger Hyam wrote:

>
> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is it beyond the realms of possibility that such a simple tool, even 
>> if it's somewhat 'stage managed', can be easily developed?
>>  
>> Paul
>>  
>>  
>> Dr Paul M. Kirk
>> Biosystematist
>> CABI Bioscience
>> Bakeham Lane
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