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The problem is that in TDWG we have some people writing and using OWL
ontologies and we have other people using Excel spreadsheets. I am
fully in support of developing community ontologies. The challenge is
to find a way to help the Excel spreadsheet people start where they are
and move towards something more semantically sophisticated. That's
what I'm trying to suggest here.<br>
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Hilmar Lapp wrote:
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<div>On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Steve Baskauf wrote:</div>
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<div>Yes, indeed. If they don't exist yet, ask that they do.
That's the way to build community ontologies - by a community actively
working to make the ontology what it needs it to be.</div>
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<div>I would consider that a fortunate fact, not a problem.</div>
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defining what a biome is (see wikipedia for examples).</div>
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<div>And so there are for what a gene function is, what a disease
phenotype is, what an animal anatomy element is, and so on. Yet, for
all of these rather domain cross-cutting subject areas, it has been
possible for different communities to converge on advancing together
one or a few common ontologies. This can require a lot of work, but the
eventual pay-off has been huge and is growing. I really don't see why
we can't strive for the same for environmental terms and concepts.</div>
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