- From: Jonathan Rees <jonathan.rees@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:20:00 -0400
- To: "Ricardo Pereira" <ricardo@tdwg.org>
- Cc: "Roderic Page" <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk>, "Mark Wilkinson" <markw@illuminae.com>, "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>
When I asked for a HOWTO I meant something a bit more general and protocol oriented. Surely you're not advising that a new semweb application should link against Firefox, or that it should have a particular LSID resolver address wired in. As Mark W has pointed out, a single point of failure and contention is not a good thing. How does the Firefox plugin know who to talk to? Does it have a list of LSID resolvers built into it, or sitting in a configuration file? DNS resolvers have such a list - the set of root servers. There are well-known ways to obtain this list. That kind of information is what needs to be in an LSID HOWTO. (For SPARQL-based solutions this issue would also have to be addressed somehow.) Jonathan On 7/12/07, Ricardo Pereira <ricardo@tdwg.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to add to what Rod already said. There is a web > resolver at http://lsid.tdwg.org that you can use to resolve LSIDs. The > BioPathways resolver isn't available anymore. > > You may download a new version of the LSID Browser for Firefox from > http://lsids.sourceforge.net <http://lsid.sourceforge.net>. Just follow > the link to "Download (new)" and make sure you get version 1.0.1. You > will find detailed instructions at > http://lsids.sourceforge.net/resources/firefox-lsid-browser/. > > Cheers, > > Ricardo
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