In preparation for the Nomina session on Thursday.<div><br></div><div>Here are some things to look at for the session titled "Exploring Semantic Web Technologies for Global Names Architecture Name Resolution"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dima and I have figured out a way to expose the name strings in the GNI to the Semantic Web.</div><div><br></div><div>At this point it is really about exploring ways in which distributed data projects can link to entities in the GNI.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In these experiments we have been exploring the mapping of names strings to species concepts.</div><div><br></div><div>For the most part these should work with different kinds of species concepts but for now this experiment is using the TaxonConcept.org concepts.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The html version for humans of the relevant species concept is <<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html</a>></div><div>The RDF version for computers of the relevant species concept is <<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf</a>></div>
<div><br></div><div>The initial stages were fairly basic. This concept has some association with the following name strings in the GNI.</div><div><br></div><div>There was no real effort to determine the nature of these relationships until very recently.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I marked up an RDF file that makes the following relationship assertions about how a concept is related to a particular name string.</div><div><br></div><div>The GBIF site mentioned a movement toward databasing names in the following plain text form <b>Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)</b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div>* Italics can be added in web views etc.</div><div><br></div><div>For the sake of argument, lets say that the preferred from is like that above with no comma between the author and date.</div><div>
<br></div><div>This particular string could them be mapped to slight variations that are correctly formed and mean the same thing.</div><div><br></div><div>This particular string could also be mapped to common misspellings etc of the same name.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Those various alternatives form a lexical group.</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly, the synonym <b>Felis concolor Linnaeus 1771</b> also has a list of essentially correct strings of characters and common malformed variants.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This would be a second lexical group.</div><div><br clear="all">So the concept represented by this page and URI can then be related to these name variants and a linkage is formed between the</div><div>
entities in the TaxonConcept Dataset and the GNI dataset.</div><div><br></div><div>These relationships can be represented in the N3 form which some humans find easier to interpret than the alternative RDF/XML form.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Note that these predicates have the "URI" suffix to differentiate between those predicates that expect URI object and and similar predicates that expect a literal object.</div><div><br></div><div>
Subject Predicate Object</div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species</a>> txn:hasAcceptedScientificNameURI <<a href="http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/772d5162-f5aa-596c-98e0-a1c6c5a29bb9">http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/772d5162-f5aa-596c-98e0-a1c6c5a29bb9</a>></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species</a>> txn:hasSynonymNameURI <<a href="http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51">http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51</a>></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species</a>> txn:hasBasionymNameURI <<a href="http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51">http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51</a>></font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Rather than rely on inferencing I also make the reverse relationship</div><div><br></div><div><div>Subject Predicate Object</div>
<div></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><<a href="http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/772d5162-f5aa-596c-98e0-a1c6c5a29bb9">http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/772d5162-f5aa-596c-98e0-a1c6c5a29bb9</a>> txn:isAcceptedScientificNameURI_Of <<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species</a>></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><<a href="http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51">http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51</a>> txn:isAcceptedScientificNameURI_Of <<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species</a>></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><<a href="http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51">http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/35da7f30-25ff-5111-ab29-1a4f9988ef51</a>> txn:isBasionymNameURI_Of <<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species</a>></font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>These same statements are made in RDF/XML in the following RDF < <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/tdwg_nomina.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/tdwg_nomina.rdf</a> > </div><div><br></div>
<div>When exposed to the Linked Open Data Cloud those statements are associated with both the species concept and the GNI namestrings.</div><div><br></div><div>In my own quad store you can see that they appear in this view of the species concept:</div>
<div><br></div><div>< <a href="http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FiuCXz%23Species">http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FiuCXz%23Species</a> ></div>
<div><br></div><div>Not that relevant statements from other databases also appear - demonstrating one of the key advantages of the Linked Data approach.</div><div>The nomina RDF and other information is part of this view even though it was not part of the basic species concept RDF above.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The same concept is viewable on the cloud via the prettier Sig.ma service.</div><div><br></div><div>< <a href="http://sig.ma/search?pid=9421eef0751cff0694b481d744607c98">http://sig.ma/search?pid=9421eef0751cff0694b481d744607c98</a> ><br>
<br></div><div>Note Sig.ma service also resolves the GNI namestring URI and exposed the rdf:label associated with that URI.</div><div><br></div><div>- Pete</div><div><br></div><div><br>----------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Pete DeVries<br>Department of Entomology<br>University of Wisconsin - Madison<br>445 Russell Laboratories<br>1630 Linden Drive<br>Madison, WI 53706<br><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/" target="_blank">TaxonConcept Knowledge Base</a> / <a href="http://lod.geospecies.org/" target="_blank">GeoSpecies Knowledge Base</a><br>
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