In *typical* use there would be 1 SQL statement for the core, and then one SQL statement per extension.

There are occasions that you would break this though.

If I were setting up an IPT on MySQL I would use views in the database, and manage those with the database database schema itself. So something along the lines of:

CREATE VIEW view_ipt_occurrence

AS SELECT id AS id, id AS occurrenceID, name AS scientificName … FROM specimen;

CREATE VIEW view_ipt_image AS SELECT s.id AS id, s.id AS

SELECT occurrenceID, i.image AS imageURL … FROM image i JOIN specimen s ON i.specimen_id=s.id;

Then in the IPT on the occurrence mapping I would simply use this knowing it will auto map since the views use DwC terms as column aliases:

SELECT * FROM view_ipt_occurrence;

SELECT * FROM view_ipt_image;

Does that help at all?

If you send your DB schema, we will be happy to help out with SQL mappings.

On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Dröge, Gabriele wrote:

Dear all,

I have a general question on Darwin Core and the use of Darwin Core extensions.

E.g. I want to use the Occurrence Core and Simple Images with a mysql database.

Problem: Only a few of my occurrences have images. The Darwin Core Archive creates a large images file with all occurrence IDs and only a few have also Image urls.

But I did expect a file with the image urls only (so much shorter) and all occurrences (with or without image) in the occurrences file.

The same problem appears for the identification extension the other way round (duplication of occurrence rows for multiple identifications) and every other extension I’ve tested…

But I am a bit confused how this can be done with only one big sql query (with some left joins). Do I have to use multiple resources to use multiple sql queries? Or is this a problem/bug of IPT?

Best,
Gabi
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