Hi Barbara, I think excel is totally fine for our purpose. Please go ahead and we will see later how we finally keep this information.
My immediate idea would be to include it later as a description in the RDF ontology (via dublincore metadata) - just like Roger Hyam did it for other TDWG standards. For example the specimen ontology relates itself to ABCD, DarwinCore and the "Berlin Model":
http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Specimen.rdf
Cheers, Markus
-----Original Message----- From: Barbara Mathe [mailto:bmathe@amnh.org] Sent: Thu 3/1/2007 11:18 PM To: Döring, Markus; Thomson, Neil Cc: tdwg-ncd@lists.tdwg.org Subject: RE: [tdwg-ncd] NCD version 0.50
Neil and Markus,
OK guys. I am on this now. (this weekend, actually)
Any suggestions as the best way to formulate this? My past mappings have been in Excel and I did not close out the expressions.
What would be the best file format for future use? Could I continue in Excel and then you folks save in an xsd program? I would prefer to continue and edit the work I've done and concentrate on the conceptual mappings rather than get bogged down in formatting.
Apologies for my ignorance but I don't normally work with xsd or xml files.
Please advise as to the most efficient and useful way for me to proceed.
thanks
Barbara
Barbara Mathé Museum Archivist and Head of Library Special Collections American Museum of Natural History Library Central Park West @ 79 Street New York, NY 10024
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-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-ncd-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-ncd-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Markus Döring Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:47 AM To: Neil Thomson Cc: tdwg-ncd@lists.tdwg.org Subject: Re: [tdwg-ncd] NCD version 0.50
Hello, I have added v0.50 to the tdwg resource directory.
The schema resource is now available at: http://rs.tdwg.org/ncd/0.50/rddl-2007-02-27.html
If you want to refer to the schema, please use this URL: http://rs.tdwg.org/ncd/0.50/NCDv0pt50.xsd
The latest development version of NCD is also update and available at http://rs.tdwg.org/ncd/dev
best wishes -- Markus
On Feb 27, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Neil Thomson wrote:
Dear all,
Please find attached version 0.50 of NCD. The following changes from v0.40 have been made:
Version 0.40 to 0.50 - (February 2007) Ensured all elements with a language attribute are repeatable (if not already) - AgentRole - Note (in Agents) - CollectionName - Abstract - DescriptionForSpecialists - Citation - Notes (in Descriptive Group) - AccessRestrictions - UsageRestrictions - CustodialHistory - InstitutionName - SubunitName - InstitutionalContactPost - Town - Region - CountryName - ExpeditionName Removed language attribute from <PostalAddressText> - assume native language Added <PhysicalAddressText> to cater for P.O.Boxes to Institution Group Added <SubUnitName> to Institution Group
I hope that no further changes will be required until we get more operational experience of working with NCD, but do please let me know as soon as possible if there is anything glaringly wrong or missing. I also hope that these changes should not have much of an impact on any implementations based on the previous version.
The intention is that this version remains as is for some time, so that the tasks we undertake this year can be based on a stable version of the standard. This includes the production of the NCD Toolkit by NLBIF, the conversion to RDF by Markus and the documentation and mappings being coordinated by Connie. A complete list of deliverables for the year is (or will be shortly) on the wikis.
I will be placing the updated file, with text-based and image-based derivations, on the NCD Website and on the RAVNS Basecamp in due course.
For those of you that are aiming to attend the NCD 2007 Workshop, the dates are almost confirmed as June 18th and 19th, with ETI in Amsterdam as the host institution. More information on this later.
With all best wishes, Neil
<<NCDv0pt50.xsd>>
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