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<DIV>What was his concerns with the various schemas already available? TDWG schemas , LSID vocabs, etc?</DIV>
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<DIV>If I understand it correctly, here is some rdf for his simple example using the LSID vocabs RDF (<A href="http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/LsidVocs">http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/LsidVocs</A>) :</DIV>
<DIV><BR><rdf:RDF xmlns:tn="<A href="http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName">http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName</A>#" </DIV>
<DIV> xmlns:owl ="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl"><FONT color=#0000ee>http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl</FONT></A>#"<BR> xmlns:rdf ="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns"><FONT color=#0000ee>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns</FONT></A>#"<BR> xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"><BR><BR> <foaf:Person rdf:about="http://tobyinkster.co.uk/~tobyink/"><BR> <foaf:name>Toby Inkster</foaf:name></DIV>
<DIV> <tn:nameComplete>Amanita abrupta</tn:nameComplete> <BR> </foaf:Person><BR></rdf:RDF><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Am I missing something?</DIV>
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<DIV>Also, his lack of interest in using Unique Identifiers is disconcerting.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kevin</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>>>> Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> 28/05/2008 8:40 a.m. >>><BR><BR>A friend writes:<BR><BR> Unable to find a vocabulary that was satisfactory for my needs,<BR> I've put together a simple vocabulary for biological taxonomy.<BR> The idea is to make it powerful enough to cover 80% of use<BR> cases, but still simple for most non-expert biologists to use.<BR><BR> Namespace and spec is:<BR><BR> <A href="http://purl.org/NET/biol/0.1/">http://purl.org/NET/biol/0.1/</A><BR><BR>You can read his full post, and subsequent discussion, at:<BR><BR> <<A href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic">http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic</A>-web/2008May/thread.html#msg45><BR><BR> (aka <<A href="http://tinyurl.com/575w25">http://tinyurl.com/575w25</A>>)<BR><BR>(Also posted to ttaxacom@mailman.nhm.ku.edu)<BR><BR>-- <BR>Andy Mabbett<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>tdwg mailing list<BR>tdwg@lists.tdwg.org<BR><A href="http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg">http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg</A><BR></DIV><BR>
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