Steve and I have again run into similar issues when trying to create something that works well as LOD RDF.<div><br></div><div>I have started to link to the DBpedia entries for those taxonomic authors that I recognize and exist in DBpedia.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In one case, I created a page for an arachnologist so that he would have a resolvable URI.</div><div><br></div><div>There is some lag between creating a Wikipedia page and it showing up in DBpedia but that is shortening.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also these Wikipedia pages are not as stable as I would like, but I think the DBpedia people probably can devise some solution.</div><div><br></div><div>In this species concept I include both a link to the species description PDF and to the URI for the Author.</div>
<div><br></div><div>HTML <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html</a></div><div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html"></a>RDF <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.rdf</a></div>
<div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.rdf"></a><div><br></div><div>Note that these species concepts have as a "Part" an original description, which has it's own section in the RDF.</div><div><br>
</div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription rdf:about="<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#OriginalDescription">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#OriginalDescription</a>"></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <!-- Ideally, this should link to a resource in the Biodiversity Heritage Library --></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:title>Original Published Description relating to Species Concept Hentzia alamosa se:2mqjL</dcterms:title></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:identifier><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#OriginalDescription">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#OriginalDescription</a></dcterms:identifier></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:description>LOD metadata about the original species description relating to Species Concept Hentzia alamosa se:2mqjL</dcterms:description></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#Species</a>"/></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:hasAuthorURI rdf:resource="<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_B._Richman">http://dbpedia.org/resource/David_B._Richman</a>"/></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:basionymName>Hentzia alamosa Richman, 2010</txn:basionymName></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:year>2010</txn:year></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:hasPDFVersion rdf:resource="<a href="http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v38_n1/arac-38-01-73.pdf">http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v38_n1/arac-38-01-73.pdf</a>"/></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <txn:speciesOriginalDescriptionHasSpeciesConcept rdf:resource="<a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#Species">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL#Species</a>"/></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription></font></span></div><div><br></div>Here is the view of this concept from within my triple store</div>
<div>* Note that some email clients - notably AppleMail tries to change the encoded URI so the link below might not work for you.</div><div> You can get to this same view by clicking on icon next to "Salticidae" on the html page</div>
<div><br></div><div>< <a href="http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2F2mqjL%23Species">http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2F2mqjL%23Species</a> ></div>
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