More Strange Monkey Business-like things in GBIF KOS Document.<div><br></div><div><div><div>Does this accurately characterize my project?</div></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">&quot;in the GeoSpecies project104 based on a small purpose-built ontology105 of mosquito-borne human pathogens.&quot;</font></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Did they bother to read any of the seven other examples on this page?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Or here <a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/">http://www.taxonconcept.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>or here <a href="http://www.delicious.com/kidehen/pivot_collection_app+linked_geo_species">http://www.delicious.com/kidehen/pivot_collection_app+linked_geo_species</a></div><div><br></div><div>or here <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/pjdwi/biodiversity-informatics-on-the-semantic-web">http://www.slideshare.net/pjdwi/biodiversity-informatics-on-the-semantic-web</a></div>
<div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "></span></div><div><div>Also note that this particular link they used in the document 104 does not work</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://about.geospecies.org/index.htm">http://about.geospecies.org/index.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>While this </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://about.geospecies.org/">http://about.geospecies.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>or this does </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://about.geospecies.org/index.html">http://about.geospecies.org/index.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Also the &quot;small&quot; TaxonConcept SPARQL endpoint has ~27 million triples.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It might also be useful to explain how reasoning can be used on the larger data sets. </div><div><br></div><div>Do they have an example of reasoning that works on a data set over 100 million triples?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there some reason why there is so much &quot;push&quot; towards specialized near proprietary solutions like LSID&#39;s and LOD unfriendly vocabularies?</div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully,</div><div>
<br></div><div>- Pete</div><div><div><br>-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>Pete DeVries<br>Department of Entomology<br>University of Wisconsin - Madison<br>445 Russell Laboratories<br>
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