Other Efforts, continued
•Hexacoral – biggest user in OBIS; uses digir
•Digir – uses XML protocol to get the data.  Extends XML to do queries.  Uses php software package to execute the code.  Supports  14 or 15 databases, e.g SQL based.  Two options for JGOFS: export to flat file or write own perl script to interface directly to digir (ZooGene -> OBIS)