On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bishopmuseum.org> wrote:

I was thoroughly delighted to learn recently that FOAF uses terms in almost
exactly the same way that I had structured my "Agents" data (right down to
the same exat terms, in most cases). I plan to move forward with the FOAF
terms that are relevant (thanks to John W. for pointing this out to me at
TDWG).

Rich

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> [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Paul Murray
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:18 PM
> To: Steve Baskauf
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> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Comments on Cam's RDF practical
> details of recording a determination What is an Occurrence?
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> On 29/10/2010, at 12:41 AM, Steve Baskauf wrote:
>
> > I think both dwc:recordedBy for the Occurrence and
> dcterms:created for some tokens should be provided.
> Depending on the situation, they might be different entities
> (I think John Wieczorek pointed this out in an earlier
> thread). dwc:recordedBy is specifically supposed to be a
> person whereas I think dcterms:creator could be a person or
> an institution.
>
> Perhaps it might be worthwhile leveraging the FOAF vocabulary
> (Friend of a Friend). It's mainly meant for social
> networking, but nevertheless it does contain terms such as
> Person, Organisation, Group and Project. (Project is
> interesting - collection activities perhaps are FOAF Projects).
>
> The spec is here: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
>
> We can envisage the day where, by following links on
> taxonomic web pages, you could eventually find an Author's
> current twitter address, or ask the semantic web "find me all
> specimens of genus Tandanus collected by teams affiliated
> with the university of NSW between 2005 and 2007".
>
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