[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-l] Policy on the use of prefix 'moby'?

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:45, Paul Gordon wrote:

> We definitely need a systematic feedback mechanism for the service 
> providers...

We discussed this at the last meeting - it is a very difficult problem! 
Services are transacted directly between a client and the service
provider, so "moby" doesn't play a role in that process - we're merely
the brokers.  We could build-in some server-side filtering, but that is
a given... nevertheless, unless the server is using our libraries, we
can't enforce this.  Other than having the client library spam the
service provider every time they find a malformed message, the only
other solution I can think of is to have knowledgable individuals
keeping an eye on things, and publishing "best practices" on the mailing
list.

>All of the examples in the API state http://www.biomoby.org/moby, so we
> should probably stick with that.  If we were really nice about it, we'd 
> put a RDDL document at that URL...

Yes - though the correct URL for things like Objects is now:

http://biomoby.org/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/Objects

and that resolves to RDF.  I will probably add this as another namespace
in the MOBY XML header - xmlns:mrdf="..." or something like that...

M

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Mark Wilkinson (mwilkinson at mrl.ubc.ca)
University of British Columbia iCAPTURE Centre