Report prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global Invasive Species
Information Network (GISIN), 6-8 April, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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The following example is a search request
to the USGS-NAS database provider for all
fish with a common name containing the
word “oscar”
If other providers were selected they would
receive similar requests from the portal. In
this example, the database provider page
“SpResultsXML.asp” is required to interpret
the search parameters and return valid XML
results in the NISbase format. The following
is the XML returned from the USGS-NAS
database provider for the previously
mentioned search.
?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?
!DOCTYPE X SYSTEM "http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/SpQueryResults.dtd"
- X
- TAXON
Taxa_SciName Astronotus ocellatus /Taxa_SciName
Taxa_CommonName oscar /Taxa_CommonName
Taxa_ITIS 169772 /Taxa_ITIS
Taxa_Group Fishes /Taxa_Group
- Record
Record_Source USGS-NAS /Record_Source
Record_ID 436 /Record_ID
Factsheet_URL
/Factsheet_URL
Factsheet_Name USGS-NAS FactSheet /Factsheet_Name
Collection_URL
/Collection_URL
Collection_Name USGS-NAS Collection Info /Collection_Name
/Record
/TAXON
/X
Provider Metadata
A provider is added to the NISbase portal by
adding some basic metadata to an XML file
called InvServers.xml. The portal search
page accesses this information so that
users can select the databases they wish to
search and to ensure that the data is sent to
the correct URLs. The current
InvServers.xml file can be viewed at the
following URL.
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