January 2008 - tdwg-tag - lists.tdwg.org

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by Joaquin Gimenez 21 Jan '08

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by Joaquin Gimenez 21 Jan '08

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SPM: Is information about a SpeciesProfileModel also information about the underlying taxon?
by Bob Morris 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

I didn't notice that ( sometime in the summer(?), it became the case that) a TaxonConcept has a property hasInformation with range SpeciesProfileModel#InfoItem Suppose that an SPM s is aboutTaxon t, and that s hasInformation i. Nothing in the TDWG ontology seems to entail that t therefore hasInformation i. In words: a SpeciesProfileModel about a TaxonConcept may have information which need not be information about the TaxonConcept This seems counter-intuitive to me. Can someone give me an example from among the currently defined subclasses of InfoItem where it would be reasonable for the SPM to have that InfoItem, but for it not to be information about the taxon concept which that SPM is about ? Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston ram(a)cs.umb.edu http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram/calendar.html phone (+1)617 287 6466

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[tdwg-guid] Leaving Kew / job vacancy
by Sally Hinchcliffe 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi all, This seems the quickest way of letting the most people know - apologies for the slightly off-topic posting. For those of you who haven't heard already, I am leaving Kew towards the end of January to pursue my real ambition of becoming a writer. I will still be around on a part time freelance basis at Kew for a couple of months working on a specific internal project. After that I will be most easily reachable on my private email address sallychinchcliffe(a)yahoo.co.uk<mailto:sallychinchcliffe@yahoo.co.uk>. I'll be handing of responsibility on GUIDs for IPNI to Nicky - n.nicolson(a)kew.org<mailto:n.nicolson@kew.org> so if you have any questions about those please address them to her. If you have a problem with the IPNI GUID service then report it direct to apps-support(a)kew.org<mailto:apps-support@kew.org> Any general questions about IPNI should go to ipnifeedback(a)ipni.org<mailto:ipnifeedback@ipni.org> in the first instance. Kew are recruiting my replacement now - if you're interested in a challenging (but largely management) job bringing Kew's IT into the Web 2.0 and integrated services world - then go to http://home/aboutus/jobs/ref113.htm Oh, and if you want to read my book it's coming out in May and is called Out of a Clear Sky :-) Sally

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[tdwg-guid] Position announcement: Senior Programmer Analyst at Missouri Botanical Garden
by Chris Freeland 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Apologies for cross posts. The Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT), located in St. Louis, MO, is seeking to hire a Senior Programmer Analyst to work on several large biodiversity informatics projects, including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org. Primary responsibilities for this position include leading the development effort for MOBOT's LAMP-based applications, complementing the existing .Net team. Up first on the development schedule is the instantiation of Fedora (www.fedora-commons.org) at MOBOT as a repository layer in our multi-platform, SOA-based infrastructure, then refactoring applications and building new ones to utilize Fedora. Future projects include enhancement of the BHL GUI and development of tools for managing digital library content. Qualifications include a BS in Computer Science or related field, 5 years experience developing enterprise-level applications, and 2 years experience leading a development team. Experience managing data and applications in an open source environment (LAMP and its variants) required. Experience managing biodiversity and/or library datasets preferred, but not required. To apply online, please visit: http://www.mobot.org/jobs/mbgjobs.asp#H005 ******************************* Chris Freeland Manager, Bioinformatics Missouri Botanical Garden chris.freeland(a)mobot.org (314) 577-9548

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