Hi Bob,
The link you provided re-directs to http://code.google.com/hosting/. A better link is: http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-ontology/.
As both Convenor for the TDWG Taxon Names and Concepts (TNC) Group (http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tnc/), and as one of the "architects" of the fledgling Global Names Architecture (GNA), I guess in theory I am in at least some position to address your question. Unfortunately, I have not been involved with, nor am I especially familiar with, the current status of the TDWG-Ontology efforts. The Google Code website seems a bit anemic, but a number of the people listed are regular contributors to this list, so I hope they will provide some additional insights.
I am working on deailed draft documentation for the data model behind the Global Names Usage Bank (GNUB), which is intended to serve as a "Hub" of sorts to bridge together the many and varied and largely disconnected datasets dealing with information associated with taxon names. I hope to get that draft up for public review sometime before the end of this year, and begin implementing it as the data back-end for the next-generation ZooBank website (also in the works). Perhaps this will have some value to the relevant TDWG-Ontology development.
For now, I guess I'll just say that I'm very interested in the responses that (I hope) will come in from people more familiar with the TDWG-Ontology than I am.
Aloha, Rich
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-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Bob Morris Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:42 AM To: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-content] Relation of GNA to TDWG vocabularies
What will be the relationship of the GNA to the TDWG ontologies now managed at http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-ontology/source/ (or at least to those parts concerned with names) ?
Thanks Bob
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