Doh!! Re: [MOBY-l] Hmmm... ID objects or SpecificID objects??

[Lukas Mueller]

Hi Mark,
can you give me a quick intro how to write a service?
Cheers
Lukas

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 09:48 , mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca wrote:

>
> As usual, I was too thick to understand what Suzanna/Jason were saying
> in this thread.  Sorry!  This issue
> came up again in a conversation I had with Luke in the pub last week and
> I
> finally realized what the problem is:  that we don't distinguish between
> "cross-references" and "synonyms" in our current object structure.  I
> think we (I) had originally intended to put synonyms into the
> CrossReference
> block, but I'm not so sure that is a good idea now that I think about it
> again...  it could result in the
> same piece of data being retrieved twice.  Yet it is important to pass
> the synonyms back along with the object if they are known since
> different servers will use different namespaces.
>
> perhaps a synonyms block in addition to a cross-reference block would be
> useful?  This also solves Jasons concern about services being agnostic
> to
> namespace (which they are already allowed to be, under the MOBY Central
> registration system inany case, but this reinforces that...)
>
> Other ideas?  I'd like to clarify this by early next week before I
> submit
> the BIB manuscript...
>
> M
>
>
>
> Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Suzanna Lewis wrote:
>>
>>>     it would be useful to have both available.
>>>      e.g.
>>>      <ComplexSeq auth="blah" namespace="diblah" id="whatever">
>>>          <external_ref>
>>>             <authority>TIGR</authority>
>>>             <for-db>arabidopsis</for-db>
>>>             <id>11111</id>
>>>         </external_ref>
>>
>> I think this was the intention of the CrossReference (formerly known as
>> "MIB") block that is associated with each object.  The object has it's
>> primary identifier in it's Triple and then all cross-references that 
>> the
>> Distributor knows about are in the CrossReference block as a list of
>> xref'ing Triples.
>>
>>> then egg-on-my-face and sorry and all that.
>
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