I got a question tonight at TDWG about the advantages of the Linked Data approach. I described one of the main advantages in this blog post. http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/8/5/why-linked-open-data-... As with the BHL example, it often makes more sense to link to related data curated maintained by a group which has that area as their primary concern. The alternative is to spend resources replicating and curating data that is outside the main focus of your work. A related benefit is that the value of both linked resources is enhanced. I am not a biographer, and there are often very good articles about significant taxonomic authors on Wikipedia. The value of both DBpedia and TaxonConcept are increased when I correctly link between a species concept and a DBpedia resource describing a taxon author. For many of the taxa, you can go from a URI of a taxonomic author to lots of additional information related to the taxa he or she described. Respectfully, - 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