Hi Nico, I am not the authority to clarify these formulations, but I would say in most cases you got it right and made it more explicit in your words except once (see below). In order to asure a proper understanding and to support some possible reformulation by the authors I cc Søren Roug from the EEA. Best regards, Thomas Am 19.11.2010 16:35, schrieb Nico Franz:

Dear Thomas:

This looks like a critical and also very general use case. Am I reading this correctly?? [my interpretations in brackets]

"An alternative approach is to get all relevant species [name + associated information] databases - national and international to produce RDF output of their [varying, idiosyncratically adopted] taxonomies. Over time [specialist taxonomists will] establish sameSpecies links between them [i.e., anchor names with taxonomic concetps, then establish concept relationships]. Then tell the Content Registry [= database which stores all concepts and their relationships] The original species databases will not be replicated. The Content Registry is just a registry. But the sameSpecies links need to be stored somewhere, probably in the registry or near by ( Søren?).

to load the data with an automatic refresh every six weeks."

...

"The main difference is that other [strictly name- and data-based] approaches have traditionally loaded all [name] data into a central [single-classification] database, attempted to remove [name spelling] duplicates and then kept the [name + associated] data centrally without any links back to the [variably taxonomy-dependent] sources. The second difference is that we want to encourage the [taxonomic concept + associated information] providers to set up [concept relationships] links between themselves and then also harvest the links [possibly using concept relationship-based reasoning]."

This is really phrased as a genuine question (to clarify my own understanding, if nothing else), and not meant to be pedantic although it might seem to be.

Respectfully,

Nico

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On 11/19/2010 8:37 AM, Thomas Bandholtz wrote:

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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/UseCase1... I am quite sure they will start working on this quite soon.

Cheers, Thomas

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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/dw...

Here is the EUNIS representation for that same species.

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

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 <mailto: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/UseCase1... I am quite sure they will start working on this quite soon.

Cheers, Thomas

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