
7 Oct
2010
7 Oct
'10
15:49
As an example I am of the growing opinion that taxonomic classifications would be rendered perfectly adequately in SKOS - each classification being a free standing thesaurus linked to other thesauri/classifications using the standard SKOS terms.
This is how TreeBASE shows links between OTU labels submitted to it and their matches to uBio NameBank records and NCBI taxonomy records, using the skos:closeMatch predicate (this was deemed appropriate also because the TreeBASE webapp determines these links mostly just by string matching). -- Dr. Rutger A. Vos School of Biological Sciences Philip Lyle Building, Level 4 University of Reading Reading RG6 6BX United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 118 378 7535 http://www.nexml.org http://rutgervos.blogspot.com