- From: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:51:07 -0400
- To: Jonathan Rees <jonathan.rees@gmail.com>, 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>
Jonathan, Perhaps this page will help: -=Michel=- Michel Dumontier Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Department of Biology, School of Computer Science, Institute of Biochemistry Carleton University Member of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology Member of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Biomedical Engineering Office: 4610 Carleton Technology and Training Center Mailing: 209 Nesbitt, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S5B6 Tel: +1 (613) 520-2600 x4194 Fax: +1 (613) 520-3539 Web: http://dumontierlab.com Skype: micheldumontier > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Rees [mailto:jonathan.rees@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:20 AM > To: Ricardo Pereira > Cc: Roderic Page; Mark Wilkinson; Alan Ruttenberg; Michel_Dumontier; > public-semweb-lifesci; Benjamin Good; Natalia Villanueva Rosales > Subject: Re: URL +1, LSID -1 > > 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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