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

[Peter DeVries]

Hi RIch,

These were the very issue that we had talked about modeling last fall and I
thought we were planning to work on after the holidays.

Check your old email I have your prototype fish list.

Perhaps SKOS:narrower?

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/Pomacanthidae.html

<http://lod.taxonconcept.org/Pomacanthidae.html>Respectfully,

- Pete

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>wrote:

> Alas, I don't have time to dive-in to this conversation in full (I still
> owe
> too many things to too many people), though I have been very tempted!
>
> Very quickly:
>
> > The model supports links to alternative concepts. The uniprot and
> bio2rdf,
> and DBpedia
> > URI's can be considered closely related concepts.
> > The way this works ideally is that the identifier of this insect (from
> TDWG) makes the assertion that
> > this
> observation
> http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/0da685c9-9cdc-4dff-baf3-38d1bdbc
> 6552.html
> > represents an instance of this
> concept http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/z9oqP#Species
>
> But if I understand you correctly, alternate concepts don't exist within
> taxonconcept.org; but only as links to other repositories of concepts,
> that
> may or may not be congruent with those represented in taxonconcept.org.
>  If
> that's the case, then what happens when the person who identifies the
> observation
> [http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/0da685c9-9cdc-4dff-baf3-38d1bdbc6552.html
> ]
> doesn't agree with the concept represented in
> [http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/z9oqP#Species] -- or any other concept
> represented in taxonconcept.org?  Do they have to hunt around through the
> other repositories to find the right one?
>
> Let me give an example.  The type specimen of Centropyge fisheri  was
> collected in Hawaii (e.g.,
> http://pbs.bishopmuseum.org/images/JER/detail.asp?ID=-1377454029 ). The
> type
> specimen of C. flavicauda  was collected in the South China Sea, and is
> known throughout the rest of the tropical Pacific (e.g.,
> http://pbs.bishopmuseum.org/images/JER/detail.asp?ID=-1339602635).
>
> Many taxonomists have treated these two species as distinct and valid; and
> hence two separate taxon concepts representing populations in Hawaii, and
> in
> the broader Pacific, respectively.  Other taxonomists have considered them
> to be conspecific, and thus only one species throughout the tropical
> Pacific, including Hawaii.  The name "fisheri" has priority, so the concept
> labeled as "Centropyge fisheri, sensu stricto" refers to the species
> concept
> consisting of individuals from Hawaii, and the concept labeled as
> "Centropyge fisheri, sensu lato" refers to the species concept consisting
> of
> individuals throughout the tropical Pacific (including Hawaii).
>
> If I understand you correctly, there would be only one of these two
> concepts
> represented in taxonconcept.org.  For the sake of argument, let's say it
> was
> the sensu lato concept (which is the more modern interpretation, lumping
> the
> two historically distinct species).  What if someone made an observation in
> Johnston Atoll, and they are a splitter (i.e. recognizing Hawaii C. fisheri
> as a distinct species from Pacific C. flavicauda), and wanted to identify
> their specimen to the concept that *excludes* the Hawaii population (i.e.,
> C. flavicauda)?  Would they be able to do so?  Or would they have to look
> through uniprot and bio2rdf, DBpedia, etc. to find a species-level concept
> that matches the one they want to represent the observation as?
>
> Apologies if I have completely misunderstood this conversation...but at the
> very least, perhaps a concrete example (with pictures!) might help to
> disambiguate some of this thread.
>
> Aloha,
> Rich
>
>
>
>


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