[Tdwg-guid] IODP paleontology meeting and LSID
Dear all,
I was invited to attend the IODP Paleontology meeting on taxonomic dictionaries and control lists end of september in Houston, USA. The IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program)is one of the most important international earth science projects. http://iodp.org.
IODP is currently evaluating new technologies for its data and information management. And one hot topic for its paleontology and biostratigraphy work is ..having control on taxonomic names.. I think LSIDs could be very interseting for IODP if they could use some kind of a 'reverse lookup', resolving LSIDs for names.
I was asked to give a short presentation on GUIDS/LSID and I thought maybe one of you already has some interesting material to show? Any help is welcome!
Btw. are there are any exciting news since summer? I am especially interested in: -how is the RDF/TCS thing evolving -> standardised metadata? -how have the nomenclators been proceeding? I heard e.g. about the ZooBank prototype any LSID plans for that yet? -DarwinCore and GBIF.. is there a way to resolve LSID from names?
best regards, Robert
Dr. Robert Huber WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de, www.wdc-mare.org Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net _____________________________________________ MARUM - Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences (location) University Bremen Leobener Strasse POP 330 440 28359 Bremen Phone ++49 421 218-65593, Fax ++49 421 218-65505 e-mail rhuber@wdc-mare.org, robert.huber@stratigraphy.net
Hi Robert,
I think some of this falls into my camp so I will answer what I can. I am sure others will set me right.
The IPNI and IF have both demonstrated LSID resolvers and I believe Zoobank are keen to move in that direction.
The RDF vocabulary of TCS used by IPNI and IF is pretty stable but needs to be integrated into the core TDWG ontology which will no doubt be discussed at TDWG in St Louis in October. I hope I can demonstrate a system for bringing unity here.
I certainly believe that TDWG should be able to provide the taxonomic and nomenclatural semantics for IODP.
The big question is a service going from <SomeNameString> to <List of LSIDs of Possible Names> to <List of Possible Taxa>. Because of cross nomenclatural code homonyms (your problem name string could be an animal, vegetable or virus) this is not solved by individual nomenclators alone there needs to be an indexing service to provide the look up table. uBio or GBIF look like good candidates for supplying this kind of services but there is no reason why there couldn't be many - depending on who has the best algorithm this week.
Anyone else want to add to this?
Roger
Robert Huber wrote:
Dear all,
I was invited to attend the IODP Paleontology meeting on taxonomic dictionaries and control lists end of september in Houston, USA. The IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program)is one of the most important international earth science projects. http://iodp.org.
IODP is currently evaluating new technologies for its data and information management. And one hot topic for its paleontology and biostratigraphy work is ..having control on taxonomic names.. I think LSIDs could be very interseting for IODP if they could use some kind of a 'reverse lookup', resolving LSIDs for names.
I was asked to give a short presentation on GUIDS/LSID and I thought maybe one of you already has some interesting material to show? Any help is welcome!
Btw. are there are any exciting news since summer? I am especially interested in: -how is the RDF/TCS thing evolving -> standardised metadata? -how have the nomenclators been proceeding? I heard e.g. about the ZooBank prototype any LSID plans for that yet? -DarwinCore and GBIF.. is there a way to resolve LSID from names?
best regards, Robert
Dr. Robert Huber WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de, www.wdc-mare.org Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net _____________________________________________ MARUM - Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences (location) University Bremen Leobener Strasse POP 330 440 28359 Bremen Phone ++49 421 218-65593, Fax ++49 421 218-65505 e-mail rhuber@wdc-mare.org, robert.huber@stratigraphy.net
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Hello Robert,
It is great that you were invited to give a presentation about GUID/LSID at the Paleontology meeting.
You can get material for your presentation from the already familiar GUID Wiki (http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/).
You will also find some new LSID/GUID documents at http://www.tdwg.gbif.org/subgroups/guid/documents-reports/. In particular, you will find:
* Links to the slides presented at the two workshops on the workshop reports; * An executive summary and a primer on LSIDs for biologists; and * An annotated summary of LSID resources available on the Internet.
Note that the page I mention above is on the pilot of the new TDWG website which is still under development.
I hope this helps you to prepare your presentation.
Regarding the latest GUID group activities, we have all been a little quiet lately, but that will change soon.
The group working on the TDWG ontology has been quite active and they will report their work at the St. Louis meeting as Roger reported.
Kevin Richards is preparing with our help a hands-on tutorial on LSID that will take place at the St. Louis meeting as well.
All sounds very exciting.
Best regards,
Ricardo
Robert Huber wrote:
Dear all,
I was invited to attend the IODP Paleontology meeting on taxonomic dictionaries and control lists end of september in Houston, USA. The IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program)is one of the most important international earth science projects. http://iodp.org.
IODP is currently evaluating new technologies for its data and information management. And one hot topic for its paleontology and biostratigraphy work is ..having control on taxonomic names.. I think LSIDs could be very interseting for IODP if they could use some kind of a 'reverse lookup', resolving LSIDs for names.
I was asked to give a short presentation on GUIDS/LSID and I thought maybe one of you already has some interesting material to show? Any help is welcome!
Btw. are there are any exciting news since summer? I am especially interested in: -how is the RDF/TCS thing evolving -> standardised metadata? -how have the nomenclators been proceeding? I heard e.g. about the ZooBank prototype any LSID plans for that yet? -DarwinCore and GBIF.. is there a way to resolve LSID from names?
best regards, Robert
Dr. Robert Huber WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de, www.wdc-mare.org Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net _____________________________________________ MARUM - Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences (location) University Bremen Leobener Strasse POP 330 440 28359 Bremen Phone ++49 421 218-65593, Fax ++49 421 218-65505 e-mail rhuber@wdc-mare.org, robert.huber@stratigraphy.net
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Ricardo Pereira -
Robert Huber -
Roger Hyam