I have added some additional information the the TaxonConcept KB for Rich's two fish

About: Centropyge fisheri se:q72fd Orange Angelfish http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%... bit.ly http://bit.ly/j1c7NF About: Centropyge flavicauda se:Mj6j4 Whitetail Angelfish http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%... bit.ly http://bit.ly/mwQIyh

* Assuming the photo's are correct, these examples still need links to representative specimens and other related data.

This was done by creating this file and adding it to the triplestore

http://assets.taxonconcept.org/fb/index.rdf

Data about the image http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.taxonconcept.o... bit.ly http://bit.ly/jjmnsd

If I understand Rich correctly all these images would be instances of the concept *Centropyge fisheri sensu lato* * * *That would need it own URI and could be related by something like this:* * * http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/q72fd#Species txn:hasWiderAlternativeConceptualization < http://lod.alternativeconcepts.org/ses/10252#Species%3E http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Mj6j4#Species txn:hasWiderAlternativeConceptualization < http://lod.alternativeconcepts.org/ses/10252#Species%3E

and

<http://lod.alternativeconcepts.org/ses/10252#Species

txn:hasNarrowerTXNConceptualization <

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/q72fd#Species%3E <http://lod.alternativeconcepts.org/ses/10252#Species

txn:hasNarrowerTXNConceptualization <

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Mj6j4#Species%3E

I think it is cleaner to have the overlapping concepts separated into a different namespace.

This implies that the set of alternativeconcepts don't overlap with each other.

So what I am proposing allows for alternative concepts.

It does not appear that The Plant List has alternative concepts, each species has a current name and the set represents their form of a set of non overlapping concepts.

Why isn't this controversial?

Note also that things like The Plant List don't do much to improve the lot of those who document and describe species. You cite the authors of The Plant List.

This is in contrast to TaxonConcept where you site the species editors and the original author is linked via their DBpedia description. (In many cases these will need to be added to Wikipedia, about 6,000 already)

Respectfully,

- Pete

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