[tdwg-content] Relation of GNA to TDWG vocabularies

[Richard Pyle]

Hi Bob,

The link you provided re-directs to  http://code.google.com/hosting/.  A
better link is: http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-ontology/.

As both Convenor for the TDWG Taxon Names and Concepts (TNC) Group
(http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tnc/), and as one of the "architects" of the
fledgling Global Names Architecture (GNA), I guess in theory I am in at
least some position to address your question.  Unfortunately, I have not
been involved with, nor am I especially familiar with, the current status of
the TDWG-Ontology efforts.  The Google Code website seems a bit anemic, but
a number of the people listed are regular contributors to this list, so I
hope they will provide some additional insights.

I am working on deailed draft documentation for the data model behind the
Global Names Usage Bank (GNUB), which is intended to serve as a "Hub" of
sorts to bridge together the many and varied and largely disconnected
datasets dealing with information associated with taxon names.  I hope to
get that draft up for public review sometime before the end of this year,
and begin implementing it as the data back-end for the next-generation
ZooBank website (also in the works). Perhaps this will have some value to
the relevant TDWG-Ontology development.

For now, I guess I'll just say that I'm very interested in the responses
that (I hope) will come in from people more familiar with the TDWG-Ontology
than I am.

Aloha,
Rich

Richard L. Pyle, PhD
Database Coordinator for Natural Sciences
Associate Zoologist in Ichthyology
Dive Safety Officer
Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817
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> [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Bob Morris
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:42 AM
> To: tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: [tdwg-content] Relation of GNA to TDWG vocabularies
> 
> What will be the relationship of the GNA to the TDWG 
> ontologies now managed at 
> http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-ontology/source/  (or at least 
> to those parts concerned with names) ?
> 
> Thanks
> Bob
> 
> 
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