Hi,<div><br></div><div>I was thinking that we are a bit stuck on current vs. new representations and the idea whether a potential semantic version should be fully decidable or if an executable version would be more appropriate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is also the issue of the various data restrictions that are entailed in different data sets.</div><div><br></div><div>I created the diagram below that I hope will illustrate the following idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>End users format their data in DarwinCore.</div><div><br></div><div>GBIF or some other group would need to clean and normalize this data.</div><div><br></div><div>They could then output this data in various forms.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1) One based on a fully decidable model</div><div><br></div><div>2) One based on an executable model</div><div><br></div><div>3) One based on an executable model that would be open and public</div><div>
    This would require some sort of data fuzzying and I was thinking that replacing the actual GPS records with a URI that represents the 10km x 10km region of the earth.</div><div>    The size of 10km x 10km is flexible, it just needs to be some standard size and represented by a URI</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is the URI to the diagram</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/storage/images/DarwinSWProposal.png">http://www.taxonconcept.org/storage/images/DarwinSWProposal.png</a><br clear="all">
<br>Respectfully,</div><div><br></div><div>- Pete<br>







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