[tdwg-content] Comments on Cam's RDF practical details of recording a determination What is an Occurrence? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Richard Pyle]

I was thoroughly delighted to learn recently that FOAF uses terms in almost
exactly the same way that I had structured my "Agents" data (right down to
the same exat terms, in most cases).  I plan to move forward with the FOAF
terms that are relevant (thanks to John W. for pointing this out to me at
TDWG).

Rich 

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> [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Paul Murray
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:18 PM
> To: Steve Baskauf
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> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Comments on Cam's RDF practical 
> details of recording a determination What is an Occurrence? 
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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> On 29/10/2010, at 12:41 AM, Steve Baskauf wrote:
> 
> > I think both dwc:recordedBy for the Occurrence and 
> dcterms:created for some tokens should be provided.  
> Depending on the situation, they might be different entities 
> (I think John Wieczorek pointed this out in an earlier 
> thread).  dwc:recordedBy is specifically supposed to be a 
> person whereas I think dcterms:creator could be a person or 
> an institution.  
> 
> Perhaps it might be worthwhile leveraging the FOAF vocabulary 
> (Friend of a Friend). It's mainly meant for social 
> networking, but nevertheless it does contain terms such as 
> Person, Organisation, Group and Project. (Project is 
> interesting - collection activities perhaps are FOAF Projects).
> 
> The spec is here: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
> 
> We can envisage the day where, by following links on 
> taxonomic web pages, you could eventually find an Author's 
> current twitter address, or ask the semantic web "find me all 
> specimens of genus Tandanus collected by teams affiliated 
> with the university of NSW between 2005 and 2007".
> 
> 
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