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

[Juha Muilu]

Alan Robinson wrote:
> 
> 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.

Agree.  However, there can be different servers on top of the same db.
Perhaps you meant that the "nsdb" is redundant, because that info is
part of the server specification (Embl idl)?


> 
> > 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.
> 
..And using some dedicated trading services which work on top of the
NamigService? So that we do not have to hardcode some specific
ontologies into the NS ids? 

> 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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