I have been thinking about the following pattern. In part after looking at the GBIF vocabulary. I am not sure if it is even a good idea but might be worth some discussion. For those fields that have both a string and "ID" form maybe the following pattern might be useful hasScientificName = string form hasScientificNameURI = Resolvable LOD compliant identifier hasScientificNameLSID = LSID identifier which could be resolvable once you add the "http:proxy" etc. This allows all three forms to be included if desired, it also provides a hint as to how the field should be interpreted or resolved. One group could also provide a mapping service so that each record does not need to include all three forms, but would allow systems to find the matching LSID for a given URI or vs. versa. My concern was that it would be difficult to infer how a scientificNameID should be interpreted by other systems. Is this an LSD, is it a URI, is it a UUID etc. ? This impacts the structure of the RDF. * Note that the actual identifiers might not be correct, the example below is more about the form of the RDF * For instance, I don't think it is probably correct to see the COL LSID as just a namestring * Also in this example the GNI name does not exactly match the string name <dwc:hasScientificName>Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)</dwc:hasScientificName> <dwc:hasScientificNameURI rdf:resource=" http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings/6c3dc35f-d901-5cc5-b9c8-ad241069b9f8 "/> <dwc:hasScientificNameLSID rdf:resource="urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org: taxon:24e7d624-60a7-102d-be47-00304854f810:ac2010"/> Some system may choke on the LSID form assuming that it uses a standard resolution mechanism So it might be best to use this form <dwc:hasScientificNameLSID>urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org: taxon:24e7d624-60a7-102d-be47-00304854f810:ac2010</dwc:hasScientificNameLSID> - Pete ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pete DeVries Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin - Madison 445 Russell Laboratories 1630 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 TaxonConcept Knowledge Base <http://www.taxonconcept.org/> / GeoSpecies Knowledge Base <http://lod.geospecies.org/> About the GeoSpecies Knowledge Base <http://about.geospecies.org/> ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content