As people probably have seen in other mailing lists, the group commissioned by GBIF to advise it on its approaches to Knowledge Organization Systems today released its draft report for public comment. ( http://bit.ly/GBIFKOS_Comments on community.gbif.org and also has a link to the draft). Among the recommendations are some that GBIF get involved in some of these kinds of issues, sometimes specifically, sometimes generally. Several are recommendation that GBIF spur some joint TDWG/GBIF Task Groups for addressing specific issues. It would be great if people commented whether this particular question is addressed in the recommendations, and whether the problems giving rise to it are adequately explained. Alas, there is only two weeks time for comments to be considered for inclusion in the final report, but the comment site will remain open for ongoing contribution, and available for GBIF's consideration while they consider and hopefully act on the report.
You will see in the report faint echos of the last few months of the discussions here. That's not an accident.
The recommendations, especially the shorter ones, are written as though you've read the whole report, which is nominally 32 pages, but in fact has very wide margins and several pages of graphs and appendices.
--Bob
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com wrote:
Gregor, Should we consider a TCS version 2 with this capability? greg
I cannot say. In part I admit to bickering :-). But in part I think yes, because xml schema is closer to the information management capabilities of people like me than RDF and the open world assumption. But then the semantic web is very powerful and enticing and I am hoping one day to be able to use the potential as well.
The decision will be taken by those who invest their energy right now. I wanted to point out that a lot of the limitations of SDD and TCS etc are not a function of using xml-schema, but of the halted process.
Gregor