> Also the geoquery works but it seems to return some strange locations?
>
http://bit.ly/dYQXUp
>
> Respectfully,
> - Pete
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:53 AM, joel sachs <
jsachs@csee.umbc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Pete,
>> Thanks - I corrected the geo properties.
>> Joel.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Peter DeVries wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joel,
>>>
>>> Cool :-)
>>>
>>> I just loaded this into my SPARQL endpoint.
>>>
>>> In the named graph
>>> urn:org:linkedopenspeciesdata:dataspace:tdwg2010bioblitz
>>>
>>> It consists of 19,990 Triples
>>>
>>> Here is one of the dwc:taxonConceptID entries.
>>>
>>> *About:
http://spire.umbc.edu/ethan/Ampelopsis_brevipedunculata*
>>>
>>>
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://spire.umbc.edu/ethan/Ampelopsis_brevipedunculata
>>>
>>> *About:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1627*
>>>
>>> <
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://spire.umbc.edu/ethan/Ampelopsis_brevipedunculata>
>>>
>>>
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1627
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1627>This
>>> should give you an a count of occurrences.
>>>
>>> SELECT count(*) WHERE {?s a <
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#Occurrence>};
>>>
>>> = 1882
>>>
>>> SELECT count(*) WHERE {?s a
>>> <
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#taxonConceptID>};
>>>
>>> This should give you a list of occurrences
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/%23Occurrence
>>>
>>> If this did not come through your email system try the
bit.ly.
>>>
>>>
http://bit.ly/g9BcoL
>>>
>>> I tried the following that should have given me a google map of all the
>>> occurrences but it did not result in the map.
>>>
>>> DESCRIBE ?x WHERE {
>>> ?x <
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <
>>>
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#Occurrence>.
>>> }
>>>
>>> I looked that the RDF and I think I see the problem.
>>>
>>> In the RDF
>>>
>>> <geo:latitude>
>>> 41.53
>>> </geo:latitude>
>>>
>>> <geo:longitude>
>>> -70.67
>>> </geo:longitude>
>>>
>>> Should be
>>>
>>> <geo:lat>
>>> 41.53
>>> </geo:lat>
>>>
>>> <geo:long>
>>> -70.67
>>> </geo:long>
>>>
>>> See
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/
>>>
>>> I did the following query to get a list of all the dwc:taxonConceptID's
>>> and
>>> have attached them as a .txt file.
>>>
>>> select distinct ?o WHERE {?s
>>> <
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#taxonConceptID>
>>> ?o}
>>>
>>> Pretty neat :-)
>>>
>>> There are some things that I will get back to Joel on.
>>>
>>> Here is where you can manually enter a SPARQL query. Click on "Advanced"
>>> for
>>> the entry window.
>>>
>>>
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/isparql/
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>>
>>> - Pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:55 PM, joel sachs <
jsachs@csee.umbc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I've posted rdf of the bioblitz data. It's at
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/TechnoBioblitzOccurrences.rdf
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Individual occurrences can be retrieved via
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/[occurrence_id]
>>>> e.g.
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1835
>>>>
>>>> Individual identifications can be retrieved via
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/identifications/[identification_id]
>>>> e.g.
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/identifications/tdwg2010bioblitz_1835_id_1
>>>>
>>>> The scripts behind this are on the kludgy side, so reports of errors and
>>>> abnormalities will be warmly welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> Implicit in each of the following notes is the question "Is this a good
>>>> way to do it?":
>>>>
>>>> 1. The data is "normalized" w.r.t. identification. "Normalized" is in
>>>> quotes because I mean it in the sense that Steve Baskauf was using in
>>>> his
>>>> Fall 2010 series of posts. His meaning of the term makes sense to me,
>>>> but
>>>> many people (e.g. the OBO folks), take "normalized ontology" to mean
>>>> "disentangled" (i.e. no multiple inheritance.)
>>>> As an example, here's an occurrence with two crowdsourced
>>>> determinations:
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1644
>>>>
>>>> 2. I used sequential integers for observation and identification IDs; in
>>>> practice, a mechanism needs to be in place to prevent two people from
>>>> assigning the same id to their respective identifications.
>>>>
>>>> 3. My answer to Cam Webb's Question #1 from
>>>>
http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2010-October/001720.html
>>>> is "both". In other words, just as "Joel Sachs" is both me and also my
>>>> name, so
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1668 is both
>>>> an occurrence and an occurrence_id, expressed as:
>>>> ---
>>>> <dwc:Occurrence
>>>> rdf:about="
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1644">
>>>> <dwc:occurrenceID>
>>>>
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/tdwg2010bioblitz_1644
>>>> </dwc:occurrenceID>
>>>> <blah blah blah/>
>>>> </dwc:Occurrence>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> 4. I was surprised to see that the Darwin Core Identification class has
>>>> no
>>>> "occurrenceID" or "specimenID" term. How is one supposed to tie an
>>>> identification to an observation (assuming the identification is not
>>>> in-lined, of course)? DeVries and Baskauf each mint their own terms for
>>>> doing this (txn:identificationHasOccurrence, and
>>>> sernec:basedOnOccurrence,
>>>> respectively); I used dwc:occurrenceID as if it were a record level
>>>> term.
>>>>
>>>> 5. We had scope for multiple taxonConceptID columns in the Fusion table,
>>>> and assigned lsids where possible. I also mean to work with Pete to
>>>> assign
>>>> GUIDs from
taxoncocept.org. In addition, I assigned ethan taxon concept
>>>> ids, which look like this:
>>>> http:.//
spire.umbc.edu/ethan/Coffea_arabica
>>>>
>>>> In their argument over opaque vs. transparent taxonCoceptIDs, I was
>>>> sympathetic to both Pete's and Gregor's arguments. Ultimately, if the
>>>> tooling exists to always display the rdfs:labels every time I'm loooking
>>>> at a list of opaqueIDs, then transparent IDs are unnecessary. But, for
>>>> now, it's really helpful to look at an ID and know what it's referring
>>>> to.
>>>>
>>>> (For species names not in the spire database, the rdf returned by
>>>> http:.//
spire.umbc.edu/ethan/$name
>>>> is simply an rdfs:seeAlso to
>>>> http://
http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings?search_term=$name)
>>>>
>>>> 6. It was easy to assert membership in RDF classes corresponding to
>>>> various Cape Cod categories of concern - invasive species, threatenened
>>>> species, indicators, etc. You can see these classes at
>>>>
http://spire.umbc.edu/ontologies/lists (Information of where these lists
>>>> come from is included as rdfs:comments. I'll add further documentation,
>>>> e.g. links to eml files.)
>>>>
>>>> Note that "ThingOfConcern" is defined as the superclass of all the other
>>>> classes in the collection. The idea here is that people can create their
>>>> own "ThingOfConcern" class, and then query for observations that are of
>>>> concern to them. You can see sample sparql queries at
>>>>
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jsachs/occurrences/queries/sample.txt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As an aside, I think we, as a community, should come up with a
>>>> biodiversity benchmark suite of rdf data and corresponding sparql
>>>> queries,
>>>> that can be
>>>> used to test the suitability and scalability of semantic web knowledge
>>>> bases. I'll take this up in a future post (unless someone beats me to
>>>> it).
>>>>
>>>> Comments, questions, and better ideas are welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks -
>>>> Joel.
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Pete DeVries
>>> Department of Entomology
>>> University of Wisconsin - Madison
>>> 445 Russell Laboratories
>>> 1630 Linden Drive
>>> Madison, WI 53706
>>> TaxonConcept Knowledge Base <
http://www.taxonconcept.org/> / GeoSpecies
>>> Knowledge Base <
http://lod.geospecies.org/>
>>> About the GeoSpecies Knowledge Base <
http://about.geospecies.org/>
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>>>
>
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> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> 445 Russell Laboratories
> 1630 Linden Drive
> Madison, WI 53706
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