[tdwg-tag] Referring to GBIF distribution map in RDF

[Roderic Page]

Dear Dave,

Thanks, I hadn't seen http://geohash.org. Looks like an interesting  
idea for point localities (as opposed to polygons), although the  
service itself doesn't do RDF.

Regards

Rod

On 10 May 2010, at 16:19, Dave Vieglais wrote:

> Geohash is another algorithm that might be worth considering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
>
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> On May 10, 2010, at 11:11 , Roderic Page wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I'm interested in referring to a GBIF distribution map in RDF, and am
>> having fun figuring out how to do it. One way is to use a c-squares-
>> based URI, see http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/05/referring-to-one-degree-s
>> quare-in-rdf.html (http://tinyurl.com/33ba4kt).
>>
>> The idea is that each 1° × 1° square in a GBIF map has it's own c-
>> squares-based URI, e.g. http://bioguid.info/csquare:3317:364 , and
>> hence a distribution would be a list of these URIs (perhaps with the
>> number of records from each square).
>>
>> Any thoughts on this approach, and whether we have an existing
>> vocabulary to describe these relationships?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rod
>>
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DEEB, FBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
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