[MOBY-l] About Moby central

[Michael DiBernardo]

On 7-Aug-07, at 3:33 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> 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.

Well, there you go. Just goes to show you that good abstractions go a  
long way to prevent you from worrying about what's actually going on :)

-Mike