Preliminary description/outline of proposed exchange protocols

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Preliminary description/outline of proposed
exchange protocols

• Robert Kukla

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Taxonomic Concept Mark-up Language

• Transfer Schema describes a file format TCML
• Concepts of varying origin and quality
• Different usages
• have different requirements
• utilise different aspects of the schema
  definition

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Systematic Approach

• Creating TCML files
• manually (transcribing paper records)
• batch extraction (legacy data)
• Dynamically (wrapper)
• Transporting TCML files
• Manipulating TCML files
• Merging
• Comparing of sets
• Querying
• Transforming TCML files
• for storage
• for presentation

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Creating new revisions

• Research and record concepts
• Intuitive Editor
• Look up and link existing concepts, publications
  and Voucher references (GUID)
• Input concept data
• Visualise hierarchy and relationships
• Check consistency
• Submit revision

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Transferring Checklists

• Supply authorities/organisations with an
  unambiguous list of species for a specific
• Identify concepts in source context
• Identify

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On-line interface to existing DBs

• Data provider maintain their own data base with
  their own (relational) structure
• Online interface gives access to data in well
  defined format via wrapper
• Queries are formulated and executed in legacy
  form
• Results are delivered in TCML
• Optionally transformed by XSL style sheet for
  optimal presentation