[tdwg-content] New terms need resolution: "Individual"
Peter DeVries
pete.devries at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 22:58:17 CEST 2011
I thought these examples might help people get their head around this idea
of "Individual"
For some email systems the long version of these URI's are escaped so have
added bit.ly links to should also work.
They are all collected into this bit.ly bundle http://bitly.com/okM8h0
These are from records that can be browsed here
http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/index.html
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC.html
*owl:Class*
*txn:SpeciesConcept*
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FICmLC%23Species
http://bitly.com/f9MUfe
*http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9.html
*
*txn_se:ICmLC#Occurrence*
*txn:Occurrence*
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9%23Occurrence
http://bitly.com/h00Q9u
*txn_se:ICmLC#Individual*
*txn:SpeciesIndividual*
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Focs.taxonconcept.org%2Focs%2Ff522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9%23Individual
http://bitly.com/hqaOyS
*txn:SpeciesIndividualTag*
http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FICmLC%23Individual
http://bitly.com/oM7X6Q
* Note
*is type of txn_ocs*:f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Individual
- Pete
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Darwin Core Issues 69 and 80:
> http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/list
>
> This issue is related to the issue of Evidence (CollectionObject,
> Representation, Token, Unit) covered in a previous posting. In the
> Darwin Core there is currently no separate class to explicitly
> represent the biological entities involved in an Occurrence. This is
> problematic when trying to be explicit about the attributes of these
> entities in the semantic world. Various names have been given to this
> concept, including "Individual", "BiologicalIndividual",
> "BiologicalEntity", "Organism", and "DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit" in
> ABCD.
>
> Open Issues:
> Determine if there is a general consensus on the need for new class
> for this concept.
>
> The best name for this class.
>
> Create a new Type Vocabulary term referring to this new class.
>
> Decide which properties currently organized under Occurrence should
> instead be organized under this new class.
>
> As a seed for further discussion, here is a complete proposal.
> ==============
> Term Name: BiologicalEntity
> Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/BiologicalEntity
> Namespace: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
> Label: BiologicalEntity
> Definition: The category of information pertaining to an individual
> organism or
> a group of organisms that can reliably be known to represent a single
> taxon.
> Comment: For discussion see
> http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/BiologicalEntity
> Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class
> Refines:
> Status: recommended
> Date Issued: 2011-07-04
> Date Modified: 2011-07-04
> Has Domain:
> Has Range:
> Version: BiologicalEntity-2011-07-04
> Replaces:
> Is Replaced By:
> Class:
> ABCD 2.06: {DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/CultureCollectionUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/MycologicalUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/HerbariumUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/BotanicalGardenUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/PlantGeneticResourceUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/ZoologicalUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/PalaeontologicalUnit or
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/MultimediaObjects/MultimediaObject}
>
> Term Name: BiologicalEntity
> Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/BiologicalEntity
> Namespace: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/
> Label: BiologicalEntity
> Definition: A resource describing an instance of the BiologicalEntity
> class.
> Comment: For discussion see
> http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/DwCTypeVocabulary
> Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class
> Refines:
> Status: recommended
> Date Issued: 2011-07-04
> Date Modified: 2011-07-04
> Member Of: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/DwCType
> Has Domain:
> Has Range:
> Version: BiologicalEntity-2011-07-04
> Replaces:
> Is Replaced By:
> Class:
> ABCD 2.06: not in ABCD
>
> Term Name: biologicalEntityID
> Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/biologicalEntityID
> Namespace: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
> Label: biologicalEntityID
> Definition: An identifier for the set of information associated with
> an BiologicalEntity. May be a global unique identifier or an
> identifier specific to the data set.
> Comment: For discussion see
> http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/BiologicalEntity
> Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property
> Refines: http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier
> Status: recommended
> Date Issued: 2011-07-04
> Date Modified: 2011-07-04
> Has Domain:
> Has Range:
> Version: biologicalEntityID-2011-07-04
> Replaces: individualID-2009-04-24
> Is Replaced By:
> Class: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/BiologicalEntity
> ABCD 2.06: DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/
>
> Term Name: biologicalEntityRemarks
> Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/biologicalEntityRemarks
> Namespace: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
> Label: biologicalEntityRemarks
> Definition: Comments or notes about the BiologicalEntity.
> Comment: Example: "seen several times in Tilden Park before
> capture".
> For discussion see
> http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/CollectionObject
> Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property
> Refines:
> Status: recommended
> Date Issued: 2011-07-04
> Date Modified: 2009-07-04
> Has Domain:
> Has Range:
> Version: biologicalEntityRemarks-2011-07-04
> Replaces:
> Is Replaced By:
> Class: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/BiologicalEntity
> ABCD 2.06: DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Notes
>
> Term Name: associatedBiologicalEntities
> Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/associatedBiologicalEntities
> Namespace: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
> Label: associatedBiologicalEntities
> Definition: A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers of
> other BiologicalEntity records and their associations to this
> BiologicalEntity.
> Comment: Example: "sibling of MXA-231; sibling of MXA-232". For
> discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/BiologicalEntity
> Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property
> Refines:
> Status: recommended
> Date Issued: 2011-07-04
> Date Modified: 2011-07-04
> Has Domain:
> Has Range:
> Version: associatedBiologicalEntities-2011-07-04
> Replaces: associatedOccurrences-2009-04-24
> Is Replaced By:
> Class: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/BiologicalEntity
> ABCD 2.06:
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Associations/UnitAssociation/AssociatedUnitSourceInstitutionCode
> +
> DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Associations/UnitAssociation/AssociatedUnitSourceName
> + DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Associations/UnitAssociation/AssociatedUnitID
>
> Terms to be organized under biologicalEntity rather than Occurrence:
> previousIdentifications
> associatedMedia
> associatedReferences
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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
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