[tdwg-content] Proposed new Darwin Core environmental terms from ENVO
Hilmar Lapp
hlapp at nescent.org
Thu Oct 3 14:25:52 CEST 2013
On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Steve Baskauf wrote:
> I suppose if people want to be unambiguous, they should just use URIs.
Exactly that.
> Unfortunately, I'm not aware of URIs for the terms from various systems of describing biomes.
To the extent that unawareness is to be supported, this can be solved through better documentation.
> I suppose someone could mint terms if they cared about this.
Certainly not - minting random terms whose semantic content consists solely of a non-resolving URI string or a string in whatever natural language is barely better than providing no value at all.
> Or use ENVO uris.
Yes, indeed. If they don't exist yet, ask that they do. That's the way to build community ontologies - by a community actively working to make the ontology what it needs it to be.
-hilmar
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