Thanks for those comments Rod. As you have seen this is an initial attempt.

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The syntax

 <TaxonNames:hasBasionym>
   <rdf:Description

rdf:about="urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:148860" /> </TaxonNames:hasBasionym>

strikes me as odd.

This is due to an accidental omission of the RDF entity type of the basionym object. Will fix this.

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I also suggest that urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names:148860 has a complementary tag such as

 <TaxonNames:isBasionymOf rdf:resource =

"urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:Names: 213649" />

Godd idea. The fields are based on the initial implementation of TCS-RDF that Roger completed, and as he said, it is not a complete schema at this stage. BTW the reverse RDF pointers can be viewed using launchpad by going into the launchpad settings and turning on 'Show back links'.

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The attribute TaxonNames:nomenclaturalCode="http://tdwg.org/2006/03/12/TaxonNames/ NomenclaturalCode/#botanical" of the tag TaxonNames:TaxonName is problematic. Firstly, I don't know why this is an attribute rather

than

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just another tag,

Due to my lack of understanding of RDF and when to use attributes as opposed to tags - I was blindly following an example.

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and the URI http://tdwg.org/2006/03/12/TaxonNames/NomenclaturalCode/#botanical returns a 404. If this is just a made up URI then this is bad --

EVERY

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URI in an RDF document must be real -- unlike XML schema where any

old

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rubbish can be used.

Also due to the prototyping stage of this 'project'. Will be fixed by online TDWG ontologies at some stage I assume?

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<TaxonNames:publishedIn><i>Syll. fung.</i> (Abellini)

<b>1</b>: 148 (1882) (1882)</TaxonNames:publishedIn> has formatting information (the <i></i> and <b></b> tags). I think

this

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is in principle a bad thing(TM)

We debated this a little and decided to leave the field text the same as has been returned by other services of IndexFungorum. But you have a good point and it is something we will need to discuss further in future.

Kevin

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