Am 19.11.2010 20:17, schrieb Peter DeVries:
I have been working with  Søren to interlink our species lists, and many of the sources included on the EEA diagram are incorporated into my sparql endpoint.

Hi Peter,

i have seen these lists and some interlinking, very good pioneer work!

Søren has invented a "sameSpecies" property for such links.
It is a very good idea not to use owl:sameAs, as this would really merge the two records.

But maybe "sameSpecies" is not the best solution.
At first, it should be "sameTaxon", so it can be used on any taxon rank level.

Secondly, I wonder whether the two linked taxa would allways be the same.
There is a good solution for such issues in the skos mapping properties:
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#mapping
There are predefined skos:closeMatch, skos:exactMatch, skos:broadMatch, skos:narrowMatch and skos:relatedMatch sub-properties, and you may add more specific flavors of mapping.

Best regards,
Thomas



There are additional linked data sets including uniprot and bio2rdf.

The endpoint is described here: http://www.taxonconcept.org/sparql-endpoint/

This means that people can at least begin to try some of this out now.

* I am in the process of updating my data set so the over the next few days there will be a time where the taxonconcept entities disappear, but they should be back within an hour.

Here is one species as seen from the TaxonConcept entity in the triplestore:

http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/dwAmr%23Species

Here is the EUNIS representation for that same species.

http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/90992

Note you can browse between these an other related entities.

Respectfully,

- Pete


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Thomas Bandholtz <thomas.bandholtz@innoq.com> 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/UseCase10
I am quite sure they will start working on this quite soon.

Cheers,
Thomas

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