[tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)

Wed Jan 5 21:48:19 CET 2011

Rich et al,

My thinking has been that the Semantic Web only began to take off when
pragmatists started to have more influence than the often described "white
coated ontologists". In one way, the "white coated ontologists" are right,
but their over-engineered solutions really only worked within their specific
model of the world.

Now that the pragmatists have more influence, people are marking up huge
amounts of data and the issues of how to get these different vocabularies
and datasets to work well together is being discussed and worked out on the
public-lod email list.

I think the best way to proceed is to get some example data sets online, and
then work out how to get them to work together in a useful way.

An initial step is to connect them using predicates *like* skos:closeMatch
etc.

Then we should work within the larger LOD / Semantic Web community to fix
whatever problems we find.

In some cases this will result in a change in other vocabularies like foaf
or skos.

The problems that some of us see in these have been noticed by others and it
makes sense that we come to some common solution.

In other cases it will involve getting the rest of the LOD community
to adopt, or at least work well with, those vocabulary terms we propose.

This is to the benefit of our community because it makes the tools and
data made available by others usable by us.

It also might be useful to step back and ask.

*How successful have taxonomists been in getting the rest of the scientific
community to adopt their standards?*

My current thinking is that we can deal with DOI's and LSID's if we define
predicates that allow consuming applications to recognize that the "object"
is to be interpreted as a DOI-like or LSID-like "thing". And do this in a
way that will be widely adopted.

It is my understanding that Virtuoso is the only triple / quadstore / sparql
endpoint that knows how to handle LSIDs.

Also, although I like a lot of what Steve says, I think that most existing
crawlers expect that a seeAlso link is to some html, xml, rdf type thing and
will
not be able to handle a multi-megabyte PDF.

This is why I reluctantly minted the predicate "hasPDF"

Also some services like Sindice seem to be able to interpret predicates that
are defined as subproperties of well known predicates.

For instance "txn:hasWikipediaArticle" etc. are subproperties of foaf:page.

We also need some sort of "playground" knowledge base where related data
sets can be loaded and tested to see how well they work together.

It is for this reason that I created the SPARQL endpoint described here:
http://www.taxonconcept.org/sparql-endpoint/

I did a quick look at the apni data and my initial impression is that I like
it.

Two sites I used to check it were: http://inspector.sindice.com/

and http://validator.linkeddata.org/vapour

To get a better idea of how it works etc., I also loaded a small sample of
the RDF into my knowledge base.

I had not expected that there would be a related TaxonConcept entity since I
have limited myself to mainly US plants, but after checking I found that the
example emailed earlier had a related entity in TaxonConcept.

So I made up this page to make it easier for people to browse through the
related data.

Gail K. reminded me that some email clients handle the "#" in some URL's
differently. To  end users these appear as broken links.

Here is the page with links to the small set of APNI RDF and the related
entity in TaxonConcept.

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/apni_example.html

Respectfully,

- Pete

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>wrote:

> I second Rod’s “V. cool!” proclamation!  I think this has the potential to
> solve a lot of problems with DOIs (particularly for the old literature).  It
> doesn’t solve all the problems (e.g., we still need to define the
> article-level units within BHL content, and we’ll still need to establish a
> system of GUIDs that can be applied to sub-article units, such as
> treatments), but in the vast majority of cases, the DOIs will be the ticket
> into the services of CrossRef.
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> I desperately want to comment on several points made in this thread (which
> I’ve only read just now), but I’m currently travelling, so I’ll chime in
> later.
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> Aloha,
>
> Rich
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> P.S. Question for Rod/Chris/anyone else concerning DOIs:  Does the annual
> fee only apply to the ability to mint DOIs within a given year, or does it
> also apply to resolving them?  Put another way, if BHL stops paying its
> annual fee sometime in the future, will the already-minted DOI’s be
> resolvable into perpetuity, or will they stop being resolved at that point?
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> *From:* tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [mailto:
> tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] *On Behalf Of *Roderic Page
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:42 AM
> *To:* Chris Freeland
> *Cc:* tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org; Paul Murray
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> *Subject:* Re: [tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)
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> On 5 Jan 2011, at 15:25, Chris Freeland wrote:
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> And following on re: DOIs, BHL has become a member of CrossRef and starting
> in February will begin assigning DOIs first to our monographs & then on to
> journal content.  There is an annual fee for membership and then a fee for
> every DOI assigned.  BHL is absorbing these costs for community benefit.
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> Chris
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> V. cool!
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> Regards
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> Rod
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