I have a new update to my data set. It is not in the cloud yet but you can download it or run queries on my server.

See http://www.taxonconcept.org/rdf_and_sitemap/

The USDA Plants data set has lists of plants expected in each county and state.

I have marked up this data as triples for several states in the Midwest as well as Massachusetts and Texas.

I have also marked up the data for each Wisconsin County.

The USDA data set also has an attribute called "GrowthForm"

I have these attributes marked up in this vocabulary

OWL http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/usda_plants.owl

Doc http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/usda_plants_doc/index.html

Here are the Growth forms I have as triples.

usda_plant:Growth_Habit_Tree usda_plant:Growth_Habit_Shrub usda_plant:Growth_Habit_Subshrub usda_plant:Growth_Habit_Forb_Herb usda_plant:Growth_Habit_Graminoid

You can see this in this example from the Knowledge Base

http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%...

bit.ly http://bit.ly/locSNl

You can now run the following kinds of queries:

What plants with the USDA Growth Form Forb_Herb are expected in Door County WI.

PREFIX txn: http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl# PREFIX rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# PREFIX dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ PREFIX door_county_wi: http://sws.geonames.org/5250768/ PREFIX usda_plant: http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/usda_plants.owl#

select distinct ?s, ?o as ?image, ?col_class, ?sciname where { ?s rdf:type txn:SpeciesConcept. ?s rdf:type usda_plant:Growth_Habit_Forb_Herb. ?s txn:isExpectedIn door_county_wi:. ?s txn:inCoLClass ?col_class. ?s txn:hasScientificName ?sciname. optional {?s txn:thumbnail ?o.}. } ORDER BY ASC(?col_class)

limit 650

This link is the query encoded in a URI < http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/isparql/view/?query=PREFIX%20txn%3A%20%20%3Chttp...

Since this does not always go though email, here is the bit.ly link http://bit.ly/j5PLzH

http://bit.ly/j5PLzHSince the a number of the TDWG BioBlitz Species are included in the USDA Plants data set, those species concepts now have the USDA attributes attached.

Since many of these related and now linked data sets exist under different names, it would have been difficult for this to work without some identifier like my species concepts.

Respectfully,

- Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete DeVries Department of Entomology University of Wisconsin - Madison 445 Russell Laboratories 1630 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 Email: pdevries@wisc.edu TaxonConcept http://www.taxonconcept.org/ & GeoSpecieshttp://about.geospecies.org/ Knowledge Bases A Semantic Web, Linked Open Data http://linkeddata.org/ Project --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------