[tdwg-content] EEA use case

[Nico Franz]

Dear Thomas:

    This looks like a critical and also very general use case. Am I 
reading this correctly?? [my interpretations in brackets]

"An alternative approach is to get all relevant species [name + 
associated information] databases - national and international to 
produce RDF output of their [varying, idiosyncratically adopted] 
taxonomies. Over time [specialist taxonomists will] establish 
sameSpecies links between them [i.e., anchor names with taxonomic 
concetps, then establish concept relationships]. Then tell the Content 
Registry [= database which stores all concepts and their relationships] 
to load the data with an automatic refresh every six weeks."

...

"The main difference is that other [strictly name- and data-based] 
approaches have traditionally loaded all [name] data into a central 
[single-classification] database, attempted to remove [name spelling] 
duplicates and then kept the [name + associated] data centrally without 
any links back to the [variably taxonomy-dependent] sources. The second 
difference is that we want to encourage the [taxonomic concept + 
associated information] providers to set up [concept relationships] 
links between themselves and then also harvest the links [possibly using 
concept relationship-based reasoning]."

     This is really phrased as a genuine question (to clarify my own 
understanding, if nothing else), and not meant to be pedantic although 
it might seem to be.

Respectfully,

Nico


Nico M. Franz
Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico
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On 11/19/2010 8:37 AM, Thomas Bandholtz wrote:
> The European Environment Agency has published a use case about
> networking and aligning species databases all over Europe based on
> Linked Data:
> http://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Reportnet/wiki/ContentRegistry/UseCase10
> I am quite sure they will start working on this quite soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>