Other Efforts, continued
Hexacoral – biggest user in OBIS; uses DiGIR
(D.G. Fautin, et al.)
DiGIR – Distributed Generic Information
Retrieval.  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.  Three options for
JGOFS: export to flat file, export to MySQL, or
write own perl script to interface directly to DiGIR
(ZooGene -> OBIS)