[tdwg-content] EEA use case

[Thomas Bandholtz]

Hi Nico,

I am not the authority to clarify these formulations, but  I would say
in most cases you got it right and made it more explicit in your words
except once (see below).

In order to asure a proper understanding and to support some possible
reformulation by the authors I cc Søren Roug from the EEA.

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 19.11.2010 16:35, schrieb 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] 
The original species databases will not be replicated. The Content
Registry is just a registry.
But the sameSpecies links need to be stored somewhere, probably in the
registry or near by ( Søren?).




> 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
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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
>>
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