[MOBY-dev] Re: how to get LSID of the registered service

[Martin Senger]

Hi,

> My suggested solution is as follows:  for every XML tag in an outgoing
> MOBY Central API message, where the content of the tag is an element in
> one of the four MOBY ontologies, there should be an attribute lsid='xxx'
> indicating the LSID corresponding to the human-readable content of the
> XML tag.
>
   This seems quite a good and reasonable solution to me. 

> I suspect that we will eventually need to make the same true for inbound
> MOBY Central API messages, since we now have distributed ontologies so I
> cannot be sure if the object named GeneClass is part of the biomoby
> cenral object ontolgy, or one of the distributed ontologies...
>
   I know that you keep repeating this, and I keep repeating that it is an
implementation detail :-) I truly believe that you are confusing us by 
talking about various ontologies without changing the Central API. As long 
as the API does not change we *do not see" any distributed ontologies - so 
for us, the mortals, there is no difference between "the biomoby central 
object ontology" and any distributed ontology. Is this true or am I still 
missing anything?

> On the other hand, the human readable names are so friendly that I think
> we would be shooting ourselves in the foot if we discarded them
> altogether...
>
   Correct, I agree. I think that for inbound messages the simple names 
are fine. The users can keep the LSIDs only for calling the BioMoby LSID 
resolution service.
   That reminds me: is the LSID resolution service already running - or it 
is a work in progress?

> Let me know if there are any objections to this, and if not, I will try
> to implement this before next week.
>
   This is a fantastic time plan!
   Could you perhaps add first the changes into the API document - and let 
us know - so we can change in advance also our libraries (in jMoby in my 
case)?

   Cheers,
   Martin

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