Given that this ontology work has to be formally correct in a several ways, I'd like to suggest (strongly) that the
name of "TaxonOccurrence" concept
be changed to
"OrganismOccurrence".
One of the properties of OrganismOccurrence would be the TaxonomicIdentification.
If this has a parent "thing", it should be something like the ObservationMeasurement thing that Simon Cox (or other larger ontologies) described at least year's meeting.
-Stan
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Richards Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:26 AM To: Hilmar Lapp; Technical Architecture Group mailing list; rogerhyam Hyam Cc: Enrico Pontelli; Rutger A. Vos; Arlin Stoltzfus; Brandon Chisham; nexml-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] Embedding specimen (and other) annotations in NeXML
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"2) Is there a TDWG vocabulary (in RDF or OWL) that has a relation for referring to a specimen record, or are you aware of another one that has this?"
Is the Occurrence RDF vocab at http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonOccurrence what you are looking for? I'm not sure I fully understood what you are after, but have a look and see if it matches your requirements.
Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Hilmar Lapp Sent: Monday, 23 February 2009 11:04 a.m. To: Technical Architecture Group mailing list; rogerhyam Hyam Cc: Enrico Pontelli; Rutger A. Vos; Arlin Stoltzfus; nexml-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net; Brandon Chisham Subject: [tdwg-tag] Embedding specimen (and other) annotations in NeXML
Hi Roger and everyone else involved in DwC and the core ontology,
in preparation for the upcoming hackathon [1] here we've worked our way through a number of use-cases for attaching metadata to data elements in NeXML [2] in a way that is semantically defined. The results are here:
http://evoinfo.nescent.org/Database_Interop_Hackathon/Metadata_Support
If you can take a critical look specifically at the section on 'Specimens within collections' (http://tinyurl.com/djdby3) that'd be great.
Specific questions related to that: 1) Is this using DarwinCore in a correct and/or sanctioned way?
2) Is there a TDWG vocabulary (in RDF or OWL) that has a relation for referring to a specimen record, or are you aware of another one that has this?
3) I could only find the XML schema for DarwinCore. Are there any plans for (or did I miss the existence of) a corresponding ontology defined in OWL or RDF, similar Dublin Core (which has a RDF ontology at http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1 and DCterms ontology at http://purl.org/dc/terms) .
4) It wasn't immediately clear how one would use the TDWG core ontology for doing the same thing in RDF (or OWL) - is this ontology supposed to be used yet, and are there usage examples, or does someone have a recommendation for how one would write the same example using the core ontology?
I know it's a rather tiny subset of DwC that we're using here but that's only a start and one use-case.
Of course, any other feedback to or suggestions for this or any of the other stuff on that page is welcome too!
Cheers,
-hilmar
[1] http://evoinfo.nescent.org/Database_Interop_Hackathon [2] http://nexml.org
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