I suspect that the firefox plugin, like the resolver client that we have
implemented here
http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca:8090/authority/data/LSID_resolver.jsp
both resolve LSIDs the way they are supposed to: By discovery of the
appropriate resolver using the discovery methodology defined by the LSID
spec.
In the easiest case, all the information you need to discover a resolver
is in the LSID itself. In the worst case, it is somewhere in the DNS
system, but discoverable using the LSID itself... so there's really
nothing to worry about. There's no "centralization" happening in LSIDs.
Ben Good suggested to me yesterday that I should put up a blog of "LSIDs
in 10 minutes" showing the code required to implement an authority server
and a resolver server. ...I wish I didn't have four grants due in two
weeks!!
M
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:20:00 -0700, Jonathan Rees
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I asked for a HOWTO I meant something a bit more general and
protocol oriented. Surely you're not advising that a new semweb
application should link against Firefox, or that it should have a
particular LSID resolver address wired in. As Mark W has pointed out,
a single point of failure and contention is not a good thing.
How does the Firefox plugin know who to talk to? Does it have a list
of LSID resolvers built into it, or sitting in a configuration file?
DNS resolvers have such a list - the set of root servers. There are
well-known ways to obtain this list. That kind of information is what
needs to be in an LSID HOWTO. (For SPARQL-based solutions this issue
would also have to be addressed somehow.)
Jonathan
On 7/12/07, Ricardo Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to add to what Rod already said. There is a web
resolver at http://lsid.tdwg.org that you can use to resolve LSIDs. The
BioPathways resolver isn't available anymore.
You may download a new version of the LSID Browser for Firefox from
http://lsids.sourceforge.net <http://lsid.sourceforge.net>. Just follow
the link to "Download (new)" and make sure you get version 1.0.1. You
will find detailed instructions at
http://lsids.sourceforge.net/resources/firefox-lsid-browser/.
Cheers,
Ricardo
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