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

Roderic Page r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
Mon May 10 17:11:54 CEST 2010


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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