Re: [Treebase-devel] Dryad API, advice on cyberinfastructure

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On May 11, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:

> Hi Dryad team, Treebase team,
> 
> Thanks Hilmar, here's an example:
> 
> For instance, this Dryad entry does not point to this treebase entry, Perhaps this is just because it is a recent entry?
> The treebase entry in this cahas the Dryad id under a tag I didn't expect: <tb:title.study xmlns:tb="http://treebase.org/terms#">dryad_8661</tb:title.study>
> 
> Meanwhile this Dryad entry does have the treebase identifer, but the treebase entry doesn't have the dryad identifier. 
> 
> -Carl

Hi Carl,

With respect the TreeBASE:

<tb:title.study> is not the intended location for a dryad cross-reference -- it happens to be there because the title of the study is pre-populated with "dryad_8661", but the submitter can easily change this. 

Currently, TreeBASE exposes a DOI like so: 

<prism:doi xmlns:prism="http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/1.2/basic/">10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03677.x</prism:doi>

... but that is for the doi to the publication, so we wouldn't want to use that for Dryad.  

On the other hand, I'd rather not do a schema change. But we have a field called "URL", which we could pre-populate with "http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8661". This field is usually used for publications that don't have a doi, and instead have a particular url -- and it's rarely used.  So one kluge (short of a schema change) is to pre-populate the url field with "http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8661" and then expose that under the "prism:url" element.  What would be a good element to use other than "prism:url" or "prism:doi"?

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