[tdwg-content] If you need something for referring to a population, then it is probably best to do it as a related class

Peter DeVries pete.devries at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 21:07:28 CEST 2011


I am still somewhat puzzled why TDWG seems so opposed to adopting anything
that comes from outside a small click?

I was thinking that it would be best to create a separate class that can be
used for populations of a species.

This would require adding an additional tag to the TaxonConcept Species
Concept Model, which currently includes several tags like entities

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Species <- The Species Concept for the
Cougar

See http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html HTML
       http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf  RDF

http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2Fv6n7p%23SpeciesKnowledge
Base View (http://bit.ly
bit.ly/gMFqR1

The model mints URI's for the following related entities. See RDF. or KB
View

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Image      - An image of a Cougar
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Occurrence - An occurrence of a Cougar
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Individual - An individual Cougar
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Taxonomy   - A Basic Taxonomy for the
Cougar, one alternative among many potential classifications
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#NCBI_Taxonomy - The NCBI Taxonomy for
Cougar, or starting at the lowest available clade
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#OriginalDescription - The Original
Description of the Cougar, ideally with links to the PDF or BHL URI.


Here is how a subset of these would relate to the new #Population Tag and
related semantic entities.


This tag is used an individual organism that that is an instance of the
species concept pecies concept RDF.
This allows you to refer to a individual cougar in a way that is separate
from the concept of cougar and retains links to other data relating to that
species concept.


  <txn:SpeciesIndividualTag rdf:about="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Individual">
    <dcterms:title>A Tag for individuals of the species concept Puma
concolor se:v6n7p</dcterms:title>
    <skos:prefLabel>A Tag-like resource that is used to label individuals of
the species concept Puma concolor se:v6n7p</skos:prefLabel>
    <dcterms:identifier>http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Individual
</dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:description>A lightweight tag that can be used to label
individuals of this species. These allow individual organisms to be modeled
as instances of SpeciesIndividualTag</dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species"/>
    <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf"/>
  </txn:SpeciesIndividualTag>

Add a tag for a species population to the species concept RDF.
This allows you to refer to a population of cougars in a way that is
separate for an individual cougar and retains links to other data relating
to that species concept.

  <txn:SpeciesPopulationTag rdf:about="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Population">
    <dcterms:title>A Tag for populations of the species concept Puma
concolor se:v6n7p</dcterms:title>
    <skos:prefLabel>A Tag-like resource that is used to label populations of
the species concept Puma concolor se:v6n7p</skos:prefLabel>
    <dcterms:identifier>http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Population
</dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:description>A lightweight tag that can be used to label
populations of this species. These allow populations of a species to be
modeled as instances of SpeciesIndividualTag</dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species"/>
    <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf"/>
  </txn:SpeciesPopulationTag>


This is the RDF for a population, it has as one of it's parts an individual
organism.
It is typed to indicate that it refers to a population of Cougars.

  <owl:Class rdf:about="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/pops/NorthAmericanCougarPopulation">
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Population
"/>
    <skos:prefLabel>The population of North American Cougars Puma concolor
se:v6n7 </skos:prefLabel>
    <dcterms:hasPart rdf:resource="
http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/51cd124d-78c5-40aa-a7ff-2e3f58ca6ade#Individual
"/>
    <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/pops/NorthAmericanCougarPopulation.rdf"/>
  </owl:Class>

Respectfully,

- Pete

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Pete DeVries

Department of Entomology

University of Wisconsin - Madison

445 Russell Laboratories

1630 Linden Drive

Madison, WI 53706

Email: pdevries at wisc.edu

TaxonConcept  <http://www.taxonconcept.org/> &
GeoSpecies<http://lod.geospecies.org/> Knowledge
Bases

A Semantic Web, Linked Open Data  <http://linkeddata.org/> Project

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