Dear all, <br><br>I just have finished a TCS XML demo page at:<br><a href="http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net/taxon_tcs?taxid=793">http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net/taxon_tcs?taxid=793</a><br>which is a TCS representation of synonym list (concepts) data on the taxon 'Subbotina patagonica' published by Berggren & Norris (1997) and Pearson et al. (2006), see a html output here:<br>
<a href="http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net/taxon_details?taxid=793">http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net/taxon_details?taxid=793</a><br><br>The XML valdates against the schema, but of course, what I have implemented is a 'interpretation' of the standard, e.g. I have now summarized the two synonymies to one DataSet, and I am not sure if this granularity makes sense. So I would like to ask you to check if the output looks reasonable. <br>
<br>I was really happy to see how good TCS fits to my data and after I have seen the first results I realized how good this fits to an experiment I was trying some months ago:<br><br>I tried to apply the Google PageRank algorithm to synonymies and as a first <span style="font-style: italic;">attempt</span> I calculated what I called TaxonRank. I have provided some more info on this here: <br>
<a href="http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-taxonrank-works.html">http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-taxonrank-works.html</a> (+ my geoinformatics community prepared a special volume on ontologies etc and I have also submitted a paper to Computers&Geosciences which will be published soon).<br>
<br>After seeing the TCS XML output and reading many RDF and ontology related mailing list contributions I wonder if anybody has ever thought about doing something like this before? <br>My tests are on synonymy list (concepts) only, but I think similar approaches could lead to interesting results also if applied to e.g. genetics. And..wouldn't be ranking based on such ontologies a killer application for GUIDs?<br>
apologies for cross posting..<br clear="all"><br>Robert<br>-- <br>Dr. Robert Huber,<br><br>WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - <a href="http://www.pangaea.de">www.pangaea.de</a><br><a href="http://Stratigraphy.net">Stratigraphy.net</a> - <a href="http://www.stratigraphy.net">www.stratigraphy.net</a><br>
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