[Tcs-lc] Human Readable - the thread formally known as 'Name of NomenCode'

[Roger Hyam]

Hi Greg,

Just to clarify where I am coming from. My current role is to work with 
Markus Doring at Berlin. He is implementing Tapir to be able to pass 
ABCD and similar protocols. I am going to build on his work so that we 
can pass TCS.

TCS is not stable yet (LC was only incorporated very recently) but we 
need to get it as finalised as soon as possible as it will be voted on 
as a standard at TDWG in the autumn and it would be good to get systems 
exchanged data before then - to show it works.

I am not trying to over rule other peoples work. I am working closely 
with Jessie and Robert (the current guardians of TCS) and trying to run 
every thought past the mailing list.

I am sorry if my enthusiasm for this subject makes me appear a little 
aggressive and domineering.

I am currently trying to put together some instance documents using TCS 
so that we can actually see how the schema works in practice. I am not 
aware of any instance documents with real data for TCS versions 0.9 and 
greater that make use of the nomenclatural stuff. This may be my 
ignorance - which is why I am writing to the list about it.

Thanks for your patience,

Roger



Greg Whitbread wrote:

>Roger,
>
>I am a little concerned that there seems to be an element of re-writing
>of TCS as part your brief to produce, what I thought was an
>implementation of the convergent ABCD protocol (TIGIR, ???) effecting
>TCS level data interchange.  A lot of energy and consultation has been
>expended to get us thus far and it would be useful to test the resulting
>schema before we set down to produce other.  I was of the opinion that
>ABCD/DC protocol 2 would be schema independent so we should be able to
>pursue both the protocol redevelopment and community comment on the
>final form of TCS without prejudice. 
>
>I hope I am not speaking out of turn here.
>
>greg
>
>On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 18:52, Roger Hyam wrote:
>  
>
>>I am all for readability and it is something I am just sitting down to 
>>look at in the TCS today. This is partially inspired by trying to put 
>>together some instance documents over the weekend. This matter does not 
>>only include field names but also general structure.
>>
>>How important do people consider it is to be able to read/hand craft TCS 
>>instances - at least simple one?
>>
>>Roger
>>    
>>

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