I should have probably been more clear that what I had stated previously was a bit of a rhetorical question.
There had been a species concept id in an earlier version of the DarwinCore.
I was checking out this page and noticed that it was gone.
http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Taxon
http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/TaxonIt seems to have been either deleted or replaced with what I call "nameID's"
I have been working with the EOL Woods Hole group looking at ways that names can be connected to concepts as part of the GNI.
We have a sample set of about 70,000 species that have the following kinds of mappings:
1) basic mapping to lexical variants in the GNI 2) basic mapping to other related semantic web identifier that have a "similar" meaning 3) Basic mapping to foreign key identifiers in various databases 4) A place in the RDF for mapping the species concept to various publications
In the future, I would like to add additional information that will allow a human or machine to determine how well a particular specimen matches a particular concept.
These are not in the current version of the RDF but their is a placeholder for this kind of data.
These species concepts are not the only potential kind of concept, but they are a data set that can be used to try out and see what works.
What I was hoping was that there would be some field in the DarwinCore that would allow a user to map their specimen to the URI for a species concept.
These would not have to be only for these particular species concepts, but something that worked in a similar way.
Here are some examples of these species concepts that are live on the Linked Open Data Cloud.
The links on this page will take you to Sig.ma, a semantic web portal that allows one to view what the Linked Open Data Cloud "knows" about these species concepts.
http://www.taxonconcept.org/example-taxa/
Here are some example SPARQL queries that can be run live against the data in the LOD cloud
http://www.taxonconcept.org/example-sparql-queries/
I have a small set of sample occurrence records in this data set that are not currently in DarwinCore but I hope to modify in the near future.
This first blog entry provides a brief introduction to this particular conceptualization.
http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/6/9/introductory-blog-ent...
http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/6/9/introductory-blog-entry.htmlI think that I should have probably stated my initial question a little differently.
*Is there still a field that expect a URI and allows concepts like mine to be linked to species occurrence records?* * * *On first glance, it appeared as if this functionality had been removed.*
Respectfully,
- Pete
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Peter DeVries pete.devries@gmail.comwrote:
I was looking through the latest DarwinCore and comments related to the TaxonConceptID.
Since the name serves as both a unique identifier and a phylogenetic hypothesis, you are effectively saying that observations labeled
*Aedes triseriatus*
and
*Ochlerotatus triseriatus*
Are separate species concepts, and should therefore be treated as separate things.
i.e. The name is the concept.
Also since there are several name variants for each "species", how do you distinguish which of these nameID's are the same species and which are different?
- Pete
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