- From: Jonathan Rees <jonathan.rees@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:06:10 -0400
- To: "Mark Wilkinson" <markw@illuminae.com>
- Cc: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "Benjamin Good" <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, "Natalia Villanueva Rosales" <naty.vr@gmail.com>
A half-baked idea just occurred to me... if we take SPARQL endpoint as analogous to LSID resolver, then merging metadata from multiple sources just means consulting several endpoints. This requires almost no programming, and could be hidden behind a simple API if desired. The difficulty of finding appropriate SPARQL endpoints is neither less nor greater than that of finding appropriate LSID resolvers. You could even use zeroconf (aka "bonjour"; an excellent non-Apple-specific set of protocols) for endpoint discovery, although I've never understood why the LSID discovery feature was useful outside of very specialized circumstances (e.g. a corporate intranet that fully embraces LSID). Does anyone use the LSID resolver discovery feature?
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