On May 24, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Rzepa, Henry wrote: At 13:32 +0200 24/5/07, Egon Willighagen wrote: I think this way will be easier for clients and servers alike.
It would not be too difficult to support this in Bioclipse.
If the link resolves to an RDF description or a GRDDL-able HTML page you could retrieve additional metadata as well.
Any thoughts?
Yeah, I have seen CMLRSS used at more occassions to publish a full database. I do not feel this appropriate use of CMLRSS. Maybe it is, but running it on a large database is going to give problems.
See my previous post. It would be silly to use CMLRSS to express a full database
I agree.
I my view, the area of application of RSS and CMLRSS is news, either about publishing new blog items or news headlines or new additions to molecular/crystal databases.
Agreed! Or, as I wrote earlier, if the CMLRSS is generated from a selective query (which could be, show me the latest 15 additions for molecules with this sub structure).
I also agree. We haven't done anything in a while mainly because we haven't completely worked out our update procedures so the update schedule has been inconsistent, but I always thought the main use for CMLRSS would be to get notification of new data of interest, where the interest is some defined by some reasonably restricted search. I also echo Henry's misgivings about moving the actual chemical information out of the main feed. The most important summary IS the chemical structure (in the way I think chemists would be interested in using it) and while there is no big problem with having a display of structures with a "click here for additional data", I think it would be pretty useless to have a list of "new compound", "new compound", etc. with a "click here to see structure".
DanZ
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