[Biocorba-l] Using the Naming Service as a top level object

[Alan Robinson]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Juha Muilu wrote:

> The use of naming service is very good idea!

If what we need looks like a Naming Service, and acts like a Naming
Service. Then using (or at least looking!) at the Naming Service would be
a good idea. Who knows, maybe we'll even start to think about directory
and trading services (c.f. UDDI, SOAP, LDAP, OmniGene).


> To make it more useful we need also consistent naming schema as you
> wrote. Your naming schema looks good. Please have a look what we have:
> 
> http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ns/ns.start
> 
> E.g: databases/EMBL/nsdb/Embl

Personally, I've never been happy with parts of this particular naming
scheme, e.g. the inclusion of "EMBL" seems both redundant and
inappropriate.


> Perhaps it would make sense to build some sort of categories
> (alignemnt,similarity search) so that discovery of services comes
> easier (or this can be left to dedicated servers... there should be
> actually some other standards for this already)

Aka taxonomies and ontologies.


If we're going to do this, can I make a plea to do it in reasonable
bite-size chunks and "KISS", please? I've had enough of trying to work on
over-arching all-inclusive schemes...


Alan.

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