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<p><u>What is an LSID:</u></p>
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<p>LSID's were designed to be a globally-recognized short identifiers for a complex
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  entities that are both computer and human readable.</p>
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<p><u>Why LSID's are in Metacat:</u></p>
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<p>We chose to incorporate LSID's in metacat so as to support a globally accepted
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  standard for identifying biological entities instead of using a proprietary
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  scheme.
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  By doing this we have exposed data and metadata stored in Metacat through 
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  a variety of LSID clients. Additionally, the LSID support in Metacat has
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  been implemented as a series Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interfaces
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  with the intent of providing an easily modifiable system.</p>
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<p><u>What you get with Metacat's LSID Support:</u></p>
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<p>By enabling the Metacat LSID support you will be able to use the LSID clients
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  and notation to query Metacat for data and metadata. An example of an LSID
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  client is the <a href="http://lsid.sourceforge.net/">LSID Launchpad</a>. Furthermore,
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  one can use the LSID notation directly in the Metacat http query to access
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  data and metadata within a Metacat.
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  For example, a document (tao.12039.1) stored in a Metacat available at: http://qtz.homelinux.com:9999
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  can be accessed by the following http Metacat queries:</p>
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<pre>http://qtz.homelinux.com:9999/authority/data?lsid=urn:lsid:sulphur.ecoinformatics.org:tao:12039:1</pre>
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<pre>http://qtz.homelinux.com:9999/authority/metadata?lsid=urn:lsid:sulphur.ecoinformatics.org:tao:12039:1</pre>
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<p>The first query returns the data associated with that document and the second
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  query returns the metadata. Notice that the periods in the Metacat document
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  ID have been replaced with colons. Also notice the host urn attribute
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  (urn:lsid:sulphur.ecoinformatics.org), this host needs to be set as a SRV record
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  as DNS entry on the DNS server for ecoinformatics.org. To use LSID support
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  in Metacat the Metacat administrator does need to have access to the DNS server
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  for the domain hosting the Metacat so that he/she can modify the SRV record(s).
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  The Metacat build.proprties LSID attributes for the above example are: </p>
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<pre>authority.context=authority</pre>
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<pre>config.lsidauthority=sulphur.ecoinformatics.org</pre>
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<p>** the SRV record for sulphur.ecoinformatics.org points to qtz.homelinux.com
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