[MOBY-l] About Moby central

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:28:29 -0700, Michael DiBernardo  
<mikedebo at gmail.com> wrote:


> There are a bunch of files that actually store the specific
> registries and specifications that you speak of. The moby central
> script essentially provides a programmatic wrapper to those files. If
> you wanted to, you could parse them directly with Jena or something
> to extract the same information from them that Central does.
>
> For example, the object descriptions are at http://
> mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca/authority/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/Objects.


Hey Michael!

That's actually not *quite* true... there are no "files" that store the  
information in the way you suggest above.

http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca/authority/RESOURCES

is a CGI script!  It is auto-generating the document each time based on a  
database-lookup... but effectively, yes, you can retrieve a document from  
the RESOURCES script that contains the ontology.

M


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