NAME

ServiceTypeParser - An module for obtaining services from the RDF Service Type ontology

SYNOPSIS

        use MOBY::RDF::Parsers::ServiceTypeParser;
        use Data::Dumper;

        # construct a parser for service types
        my $parser = MOBY::RDF::Parsers::ServiceTypeParser->new();

        # get all service types from a URL
        my $services_href = $parser->getNamespaces('http://biomoby.org/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/Services');

        # print out details regarding 'Analysis'
        print Dumper($services_href->{'Analysis'});

DESCRIPTION

This module contains the methods required to download and parse Service Type RDF into individual service types

AUTHORS

 Edward Kawas (edward.kawas [at] gmail [dot] com)

SUBROUTINES

new

Contructs a new ServiceTypeParser.

Input: none.

Example:

        MOBY::RDF::Parsers::ServiceTypeParser->new()

getServiceTypes

Downloads RDF from $url, parses it and returns a hashref of hash. The key into the hashref is a service type name and the hash value contains information on that service type. The keys for the inner hash are:

        definintion
        authURI
        email
        lsid

Input: a scalar URL

Example:

        my $parser = MOBY::RDF::Parsers::ServiceTypeParser->new();
        my $namespace_href = $parser->getServiceTypes('http://biomoby.org/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/Services');