- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:04:55 +0200
- To: Sean Martin <sjmm@us.ibm.com>
- CC: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Sean Martin wrote: > Unless I have completely misunderstood Gary's orginal question as stated > above, I disagree. There is a standard [1] for dereferencing any LSID > and retrieving its associated data and metadata documents. This is part > of the OMG LSID specification and has been implemented in a number > client/server language stacks. My own team implemented [2] this standard > when creating fully client/server protocol stacks for perl, java and a > Windows COM client. I am not about to claim that there isn't any standard mechanism; the issue is that at one point someone usually has to get the actual data, and here more work is required with a specialized mechanism, as I am sure you discovered :-)
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