[MOBY-dev] A need for Moby 1.0.0.1?

[Mark Wilkinson]

in the mobycentral.conf file there is an "lsid-authority" parameter that  
is set during installation.  Any new "entities" created by that registry  
will have that value as the authority of the lsid.

...I don't see the problem...??

M




On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:38:00 -0800, Paul Gordon <gordonp at ucalgary.ca>  
wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I was talking off-list with Eddie and I think I found a problem with the  
> current spec vis-a-vis LSIDs.  Currently, there is no way to figure out  
> a given registry what its LSID authority is.  This means you can't  
> reliably resolve metadata about objects without hardcoding the  
> authority.  For example, if I want to resolve the meta data for a  
> service such as TrimVectorSeqs @ moby.ucalgary.ca the LSID is
>
> urn:lsid:biomoby.org:serviceinstance:moby.ucalgary.ca,TrimVectorSeqs
>
> which I can fetch and get all kinds of wonderful details about the  
> service, including in the future things like test cases.  The problem is  
> that the biomoby.org part only works for stuff registered at the main  
> Moby Central server.  If I want to use the INB central server, there is  
> currently no way for the registry to tell me what to put in the LSID  
> where the "biomoby.org" normally is.  I need this, for example, so that  
> MobyService.getService(name, authority, registry) can fetch all the  
> details of the service and create a meaningful MobyService object from  
> RDF (as that's the direction we are heading).  This is the last bit of  
> my jMOBY code that doesn't support multiple registries, so it's serious  
> stumbling block.
>
> My proposal is that we a new method something like the current   
> retrieveResourceURLs method, but called  
> retrieveResourceLSIDAuthorities.  The output would look like:
>
> <resourceLSIDAuthorities>
>        <Resource name="Service" authority="biomoby.org">
>        <Resource name="Object" url="biomoby.org"/>
>        <Resource name="Namespace" authrity="biomoby.org"/>
>        <Resource name="ServiceInstance" url="inb.es"/>
> </resourceLSIDAuthorities>
>
> In this particular case, the registry is using the standard data type,  
> namespace and service type definitions, but has its own list of service  
> instances...such a mirror probably may not exist at the moment, but you  
> get the point.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Paul
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