Hi Nico,
I am not the authority to clarify these formulations, but I would say in most cases you got it right and made it more explicit in your words except once (see below).
In order to asure a proper understanding and to support some possible reformulation by the authors I cc Søren Roug from the EEA.
Best regards, Thomas
Am 19.11.2010 16:35, schrieb Nico Franz:
Dear Thomas:
This looks like a critical and also very general use case. Am Ireading this correctly?? [my interpretations in brackets]
"An alternative approach is to get all relevant species [name + associated information] databases - national and international to produce RDF output of their [varying, idiosyncratically adopted] taxonomies. Over time [specialist taxonomists will] establish sameSpecies links between them [i.e., anchor names with taxonomic concetps, then establish concept relationships]. Then tell the Content Registry [= database which stores all concepts and their relationships]
The original species databases will not be replicated. The Content Registry is just a registry. But the sameSpecies links need to be stored somewhere, probably in the registry or near by ( Søren?).
to load the data with an automatic refresh every six weeks."
...
"The main difference is that other [strictly name- and data-based] approaches have traditionally loaded all [name] data into a central [single-classification] database, attempted to remove [name spelling] duplicates and then kept the [name + associated] data centrally without any links back to the [variably taxonomy-dependent] sources. The second difference is that we want to encourage the [taxonomic concept + associated information] providers to set up [concept relationships] links between themselves and then also harvest the links [possibly using concept relationship-based reasoning]."
This is really phrased as a genuine question (to clarify my ownunderstanding, if nothing else), and not meant to be pedantic although it might seem to be.
Respectfully,
Nico
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On 11/19/2010 8:37 AM, Thomas Bandholtz wrote:
The European Environment Agency has published a use case about networking and aligning species databases all over Europe based on Linked Data: http://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Reportnet/wiki/ContentRegistry/UseCase1... I am quite sure they will start working on this quite soon.
Cheers, Thomas
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