Thanks Kevin,

My dream for this would be to get people to slowly add meta/link tags to the headers of their pages that could be converted into RDF using GRDDL type mechanisms. That way we would slowly produce a semantically linked set of resources - but without telling anyone.

It took me a while to realize that this document http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-html/ is actually saying how to express RDF in the header of any old html document.

All the best,

Roger

On 4 Nov 2008, at 22:21, Kevin Richards wrote:

Good stuff.

Having just attended the ISWC conference (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ ) I am keen to push forward any new, simple approaches to getting biodiversity data on the web and available. One interesting tutorial was the "How to published linked data" - see the presentation at http://events.linkeddata.org/iswc2008tutorial/how-to-publish-linked-data-isw... , which also mentions sitemaps. One of the key things is to get RDF data linked into an existing data source, eg dbpedia (== structured wikipedia data). So I am going to investigate dbpedia, wikispecies, etc to see if we can hook ourselves into the web data world, then we can SPARQL our way around the world of biodiversity data. And at that point we should no longer have any need for harvesters/aggregators as the whole domain of biodiversity data will be available via the semantic web.

another interesting talk was about dbpedia mobile (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaMobile ), which allows the display of location based dbpedia data on a location aware mobile device - imagine what we could do with biodiversity data and dbpedia mobile!

ahh, the dreams

Kevin

From: tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org ] On Behalf Of Roger Hyam Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2008 5:28 a.m. To: Technical Architecture Group mailing list Subject: [tdwg-tag] SpeciesIndex written up

Hi All,

People made friendly noises after my talk on SpeciesIndexes at TDWG 2008 the other day so I thought I would flesh out the ideas on the TAG wiki. You can see them here:

http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/SpeciesPages

and here

http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/SpeciesPagesMetaTags

If you are looking for displacement activity or a revolution I'd be really grateful for your thoughts - either on the list or on the wiki pages. Some of this seems a little heretical to me as it is so simple.

Many thanks,

Roger

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