[MOBY-l] DiGIR - An integration project that we missed!

[Mark Wilkinson]

As my PhD supervisor once told me - "Good ideas rarely occur to just one 
person..."

Here's (yet) another project heading along a similar path:
http://digir.sourceforge.net/

There seems to be a convergence of thought in the community :-)

My first skimming over the project website suggests that their overall 
problem-space is different from ours (though I didn't read it deeply 
yet), but we definately have similar goals.  My initial impression is 
that the DiGIR project is aiming to integrate the various databases 
through a semantic mapping approach, generating a 
federated-'meta-schema' that can then be queried by SQL-like 
XML-formatted requests (...something that we are *totally* lacking in 
MOBY at the moment - logical operations in our requests...).  The 
availability of information in the various databases is stored in a UDDI 
registry.

I'm probably not describing it adequately, so I hope that we can get 
them to describe the project in their own words :-)   I believe that 
some DiGIR project members have joined the mailing list and are 
"lurking"... please say "hi" and tell us more about your project!

So many people in so many projects with so many cool ideas!

Cheers all,

Mark


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