· There are certain things for which LSIDs are not appropriate. It would be legal to use them for RDF resource identifiers for controlled vocabularies and XML Schema locations BUT we would have to extend existing software libraries to do this which is not desirable.
· Recommendation: LSIDs are not used for controlled vocabularies, ontologies or XML Schema locations. LSIDs should be used to refer to instances.
Basically it was felt that if we used LSIDs for things like rdfs:Class definitions then any library that went off to fetch the definitions automatically would have to be extended so that it understood LSID resolution. On the other hand it was felt that use of LSIDs for real resources (things we are actually describing like specimens and people) was fine. Once an ontology is loaded then it is all fine though so to an extent this may be a false problem.· Recommendation: GUIDs Group should issue a document clearly justifying adoption of GUID technology. The advantages need to be clearly explained.
I'll try and get this report out ASAP but it looks very similar to the wiki page here:Dear Gregor, For the benefit of those not at TAG 1, can you please explain why "LSIDs are not interoperable with semantic web technologies"? Regards Rod On 2 May 2006, at 16:44, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:Note that part of my concern about the use of concept when talking about classes/properties/data elements is that I more and more believe we will want to use ontology reasoners for uses other than software design, i.e. as part of what we currently consider data (taxon names, concepts, rank hierarchy, parts of organisms, properties of organisms, etc.). All these are ontological concepts, and efforts www.plantontology.org do use OWL to reason on them. The SDD presentation (the one not held in EDI, attached) contained some examples how we might want to query our data - in ways that OWL-for-software- design seems not to cover - and which using LSIDs would even prevent. Please discuss: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/WhyWeShouldNotUseLSIDs http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/UsePURLsAsGUIDs Gregor ---------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn@bba.de) Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) Königin-Luise-Str. 19 Tel: +49-30-8304-2220 14195 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30-8304-2203 The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: SDD-TAG1.ppt Date: 23 Apr 2006, 18:10 Size: 1056768 bytes. Type: Unknown <SDD-TAG1.ppt>_______________________________________________ Tdwg-tag mailing list Tdwg-tag@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag_lists.tdwg.org------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Professor Roderic D. M. Page Editor, Systematic Biology DEEB, IBLS Graham Kerr Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QP United Kingdom Phone: +44 141 330 4778 Fax: +44 141 330 2792 email: r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk web: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html Subscribe to Systematic Biology through the Society of Systematic Biologists Website: http://systematicbiology.org Search for taxon names: http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/ Find out what we know about a species: http://ispecies.org Rod's rants on phyloinformatics: http://iphylo.blogspot.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tdwg-tag mailing list Tdwg-tag@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag_lists.tdwg.org
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