[Open-bio-l] LSIDs

[Matthew Pocock]

 --- Brian King <kingb_98 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > 
> OK.  I think identifying formats with URNs is a good
> idea,  but also that the format names should be in a
> different namespace than "lsid", as you mention. 
> One
> reason for a different namespace is that the "lsid"
> identifier is associated with a data resolution
> process.

<snip/>

Thanks for the input Brian. So, finding an embl entry
or locating a blossum/pam matrix would be good uses of
LSIDs, but naming file formats or standard classes of
biological objects (e.g. 'sequence') would not, as the
former can be fetched but the latter are abstract? Do
the standard alphabets DNA, RNA and PROTEIN fall into
the former or latter categories? I could resolve some
LSID to the IUPAC (or whatever it is) table for DNA I
guess. Different translation tables would also count
as LSID-able but an entity representing the process of
translation would not. Or am I missing the point
again?

Could we snaffle the urn:open-bio namespace for these
things, or would that cause problems?

And lastly, has anybody got their hands on a JNDI
implementation that deals with URNs in a way that lets
you plug in your own resolvers without writing a
million JNDI support classes? Please?

Matthew

> Regards,
> Brian
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