I thought that it might be useful and illustrative to create some examples of an Occurrence record using the new extension of the geo vocabulary and a record for an individual with two identification annotations.
These are designed mainly to work well on the Linked Open Data Cloud and allow me to do the kinds of queries that I need to.
There are points where if I assumed inferencing I could have slimmed down the RDF, but you cannot always assume that there will be inferencing so I choose to be explicit.
Also these two examples are linked together and browsable in the way one would expect.
The have not been completely assimilated in to the cloud, and there may be some errors in them but the serve as pretty good demonstrations.
They also serve to illustrate how different the conceptualizations may need to be between a DarwinCore for submitting records and one that will work well on the cloud.
(See my earlier proposal)
Linking Species Concepts to Occurrences and Individual Specimens
- Note that includes two separate identifications in the RDF
and another example RDF for an occurrence record that uses the new extended geo vocabulary.
Occurrence: RDF Document for Bufo americanus Occurrence Shivering Sands Natural Area Beach 2008-07-04/2008-07-04
Individual: RDF Document for Individual Bufo americanus specimen Shivering Sands Natural Area Beach 2008-07-04/2008-07-04
This SPARQL Query works on my Virtuoso Endpoint, this query will also start working on the Cloud once the RDF has been assimilated
DESCRIBE ?x WHERE {
?x txn:areaHasObservedSpecies american_toad:.
}
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Pete DeVries
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
445 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
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