[MOBY-l] MOBY Duple? :-)

[Mark Wilkinson]

"Jason E. Stewart" wrote:

> I would
> advise using what I3C is proposing for the LSID: Life Science
> Identifier, a sub-category of LOID: Location Independent Object
> Identifier being promoted by the grid-computing folks.

> Now this already looks a lot like what we're talking about:

I agree, the LSID is completely compatible with the namespace/id parts of the
Triple.


> * authority - we were using this as where the data came from, but in
>   the identifier case, it means who controls the namespace. Examples:
>   i3c.org, ncbi.nih.nlm.gov, ebi.ac.uk.

Then we probably need both senses of "authority" in the MOBY system, in light
of the 'user'-requests to know who is providing them with the data.  This is no
problem - "Distributor" can go in the envelope and "Authority" can go in the
Identifier.

So... has the MOBY Triple now evolved into:

    <Object lsid="urn:loid:lsid:bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca:ArabidopsisGID:At2332487:">

??  a "duple"...

This seems fine, and neither makes nor breaks our current plans for MOBY...
moreover it keeps us compatible with other projects.  As Ewan would say, this
is a Good Thing (tm).

Unless there are objections I'll change the object models in the database
tomorrow to reflect this, and then update the MOBY-Central API to collect and
store the extra data.

M

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Dr. Mark Wilkinson
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National Research Council of Canada
Plant Biotechnology Institute
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