[MOBY-l] signatureURLs; test registry

[Frank Gibbons]

Mark,

>we are getting ready to make a very significant change in MOBY-S, so I
>need **all existing service providers** to do a one-time exercise.  This
>is also important for those who have their own MOBY Central installations.

The CGI (http://mobycentral.cbr.nrc.ca/cgi-bin/getRDFXML.pl) you put up to 
make signature RDF worked fine for me (and was really fast), but it did 
raise one or two questions:

>3)  To ensure that your service is not deleted, you must place this RDF
>signature in the location that you specified in the signatureURL field 
>when you registered your service.

As soon as I had done it the first time, I realised "Oh no, that's not a 
good place to put the RDF!", so I ran the CGI again, this time with a more 
sensible location for the RDF. Will that work? In other words, does 
re-running it erase the old location, or will my services now end up being 
de-registered because there's no RDF in the first location I entered, 
although it is present and accessible in the second (and final) location I 
entered?

Glad to hear the crawler will be "coming soon to a website near me" ;) I'm 
wondering how often it'll run - should I expect one visit a day, or one a 
week? Specifically, I'm wondering what the latency will be if I decide to 
register a new service by firing up IsaViz and adding to the RDF, rather 
than using a call to MOBY Central? In the latter case, I expect the service 
to be immediately registered, but what about the former?

And finally, what's up with the test registry - I can't seem to connect any 
longer (worked fine on Monday, I believe).

Thanks,

-Frank


PhD, Computational Biologist,
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