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| 2 | # Data Services |
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| 4 | This is a draft architecture for platform data services. |
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| 7 | Currently, these are only notes of my first ideas. Should be followed. |
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| 13 | ## Action flow for queries: |
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| 15 | 1. Receive Request |
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| 17 | 1. Analyse Query |
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| 19 | 1. Retrieve Data |
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| 21 | 1. Validate Data (optional) |
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| 23 | 1. Convert Data format (optional) |
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| 25 | 1. Return Response |
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| 28 | ## Data Service Parameters: |
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| 30 | * Kind of Data |
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| 32 | * Adresses |
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| 34 | * Taxon Data |
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| 36 | * Literature (Bibliographic References) |
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| 38 | * Images |
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| 40 | * Documents |
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| 42 | * List of acceptable response data formats |
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| 44 | * e.g. LDAP, SyncML,... |
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| 46 | * e.g. TCS,... |
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| 48 | * e.g. BibTex, EndNote,... |
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| 50 | * e.g. JPEG, PNG, ... |
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| 52 | * Action or Function |
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| 54 | * e.g. query, read, write, versioning, validate |
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| 56 | * Input data format |
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| 58 | * applies for modifying actions only, e.g. write, versioning, |
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| 60 | * same as response data formats, but only one per data set |
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| 62 | * List of data stores to apply action to |
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| 64 | * URI-style description of data sources to be queried |
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| 66 | * may be just a label or may be an URL |