FW: URIs for NCBI data

FYI...

-----Original Message-----
From: Kwan, Kathy (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] [mailto:kwan@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Sent: Thu 2/22/2007 6:18 PM
To: Eric Neumann
Cc: Kwan, Kathy (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
Subject: RE: URIs for NCBI data
 
Hi Eric,
 
We had some intial discussions and plan to work on a stable/usable URL
scheme for our resources.  When it is done, outside people could use
them to as URI to point to our resources.   I'll keep you posted as the
project gets closer to production.
 
Thank you for your interest in NCBI resources.
 
Kathy
 
 


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	From: Eric Neumann [mailto:eneumann@teranode.com] 
	Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:40 PM
	To: Kwan, Kathy (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
	Subject: RE: URIs for NCBI data
	
	

	Kathy,
	
	Yes, we are leaning towards a URL "http" identifier, thus
requiring no additional urn (lsid) resolution mechanism.
	
	Regarding the use of #, it is usually used to describe "the
entity" (on the right side) within a RDF doc (or database). This is not
a necessity, since a slash can always be used instead, and the request
re-routed to a database.
	
	Something like
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2006/entrez/<DATABASE_GOES_HERE>/<IDENTIFIER
_GOES_HERE>  would work fine!
	
	Eric
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Kwan, Kathy (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
[mailto:kwan@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
	Sent: Fri 2/16/2007 4:36 PM
	To: Eric Neumann
	Cc: Kwan, Kathy (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
	Subject: RE: URIs for NCBI data
	
	Hi Eric,
	
	Hi Eric,
	
	Just a couple of questions, is the URI that your group
considering
	mainly URL, right?  If yes, is there a reason behind it?
	
	Also, is the example that you gave:
	
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2006/entrez/<DATABASE_GOES_HERE>#<IDENTIFIER
	_GOES_HERE
	arbituary, or there is a reason behind using "#" to separate
database
	and identifier? 
	
	TIA,
	
	Kathy
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Eric Neumann [mailto:eneumann@teranode.com]
	Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 1:29 PM
	To: Kwan, Kathy (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
	Subject: URIs for NCBI data
	
	
	Kathy,
	
	Last year HCLSIG had a discussion on how best to define URIs for
life
	science data that would work with current data providers.
Discussion
	have progressed, and more notes have been created regarding
authority
	web identifiers for life science data entities (e.g.,
entrez-gene, etc).
	Here's one such note describing how to define asn used metadata:
	http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/metaDataInURI-31.html
	
	I am not sure if you are still interested in this topic, but our
	upcoming demos hope to capitalize on URI's for data from centers
such as
	NCBI. To this end it would be useful to try and see if a
straightforward
	and easy to maintain URI scheme could be considered by NCBI, so
that we
	would not have to create 'dummy' URIs for Entrez that might
accumulate
	lots of links and annotations.
	
	Basically, we would only need to agree on a stable space for the
data in
	consideration (e.g.,
	
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2006/entrez/<DATABASE_GOES_HERE>#<IDENTIFIER
	_GOES_HERE>)-- it would not need to resolve to anything (like
RDF or
	XML) at this point.
	
	If you have questions or need more information, I'd be happy to
help
	out, or even organize a discussion with interested HCLSIG
members.
	
	best,
	Eric
	
	Eric Neumann, PhD
	co-chair, W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences
	+1 (781)856-9132