Hi Steve,
I thought I would follow up on something you wrote.
Yes for now all of these SpeciesConcepts are to some extent *sensu* DeVries.
But the goal is to have editors determine what specimens, images and related data should serve as guides to clarifying the species concepts.
Since the Concept URI's are easily trackable they could be added to publications easily and those editors would receive publication like credit for their efforts.
Since these are open and the editors are linked via URI's to the concepts they have contributed to the editor's contributions and citation rate can be easily tracked.
* The original description should also be included in the species concept RDF.
* Ideally the BHL would expose URI's for publications so it would be easy to link to them.
Many have argued that the original descriptions should be cited when a reference to a species is made in a publication.
However in most cases this would be asking the authors to cite a publication that they have never read.
Also here is an example of one of the concepts that links to an etype page. (It would be nice if these etype URI's were cleaner and did not contain & that need to be escaped)
HTML http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc.html
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc.htmlRDF http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc.rdf
The specific section of the RDF is
<txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription rdf:about=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc#OriginalDescription%22%3E <!-- Ideally, this should link to a resource in the Biodiversity Heritage Library --> dcterms:titleOriginal Published Description of Species Concept Stereopalpus vestitus se:MYQMc</dcterms:title> dcterms:identifier http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc#OriginalDescription </dcterms:identifier> dcterms:descriptionLOD metadata about the original species description relating to Species Concept Stereopalpus vestitus se:MYQMc</dcterms:description> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc#Species%22/%3E <dcterms:creator rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thomas_Say%22/%3E <dcterms:created rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear ">1824</dcterms:created> <!-- There should be a type specimen. Add link to GBIF via 'txn:sodHasTypeSpecimen' if they know about it. --> <txn:hasEtypePage rdf:resource=" http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Fo... "/> <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/MYQMc.rdf%22/%3E </txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription>
If I had a PDF to link (or a BHL URI) to then the RDF would had the additional statements seen in the Cougar example.
<txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription rdf:about=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#OriginalDescription%22%3E <!-- Ideally, this should link to a resource in the Biodiversity Heritage Library --> dcterms:titleOriginal Published Description of Species Concept Puma concolor se:v6n7p</dcterms:title> dcterms:identifier http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#OriginalDescription </dcterms:identifier> dcterms:descriptionLOD metadata about the original species description relating to Species Concept Puma concolor se:v6n7p</dcterms:description> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species%22/%3E <dcterms:creator rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carl_Linnaeus "/> txn:hasBasionymNameFelis concolor Linnaeus 1771</txn:hasBasionymName> <dcterms:created rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear ">1771</dcterms:created> <dcterms:hasFormat rdf:resource=" http://assets.geospecies.org/spec_concept_uuid/603bebac-cc44-4168-bbf7-b11b9... "/> <!-- There should be a type specimen. Add link to GBIF via 'txn:sodHasTypeSpecimen' if they know about it. --> <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf%22/%3E </txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=" http://assets.geospecies.org/spec_concept_uuid/603bebac-cc44-4168-bbf7-b11b9... "> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species%22/%3E dcterms:formatapplication/pdf</dcterms:format> <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf%22/%3E </rdf:Description>
Respectfully,
- Pete
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