TapirLink is a free and open source data provider tool which implements the TAPIR protocol. It is based on the earlier DiGIR PHP provider, which is used by many institutions around the world to serve a total of more than 100 million specimen records. TapirLink has been designed to be as simple to use as the DiGIR PHP provider and to enable rapid and seamless migration of existing DiGIR providers to the TAPIR protocol.

TapirLink is a general-purpose tool and can be used to serve other classes of data as well as biological collections data. It supports most of the advanced features of the TAPIR protocol, including all TAPIR operations, searches using complex filters and flexible output models (for example KML, RSS2, DarwinCore 1.4 application schema, ABCD 2.06 and TDWG Ontology RDF).

Additional features include the ability to import configuration files from the DiGIR PHP provider, a user interface for UDDI registration, a configurable LSID resolver and the option to associate XSLT stylesheets with the XML responses to present the data in a human-readable form in Web browsers.

TapirLink allows data providers to participate in TAPIR networks or simply to offer a Web Service interface to their data. This presentation will describe the TapirLink software, showing the installation requirements, configuration details and main features of the tool.