[Tdwg-phylo] Publishing a tree in RDF

[Chris Baron]

Hi,

My name is Chris Baron - a software developer, computer science graduate
student interested in linked data, working in BioSync at the Field Museum on
tree visualization.  I have a few ideas on how to publish trees in RDF (have
even created a tool to do so) and would like to speak to Biologists about
how their data exists at publication so I can form a proper solution.



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> From: Arlin Stoltzfus <arlin at umd.edu>
> Subject: [Tdwg-phylo] publishing trees in CDAO as linked open data?
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> Dear all--
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> At the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting last month, a
> sub-group of the phylogenetic standards working group started a
> project to assess "current best practices for publishing trees
> electronically".   At present, probably the best way to publish a tree
> is to use the TreeBASE submission process, which makes it possible to
> upload a NEXUS file and create associations of OTUs with taxon IDs,
> and of data rows with accessions, and so on.  But there are also some
> other possibilities.  The preliminary report is being assembled here:
>
>   http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Phylogenetics/LinkingTrees2010
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> Our plan is (over the next 6 weeks) to get feedback on this
> preliminary report, then analyze the results and prepare a more
> extensive report for publication.
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> One possibility that we haven't examined yet is to publish a tree
> electronically by rendering it in RDF in the language of CDAO
> (Comparative Data Analysis Ontology) and then contributing it to the
> Linked-Open-Data cloud in some way.
>
> Does anyone out there want to explore this idea and contribute the
> results to the TDWG project?   If so, please let me know.
>
> Arlin
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> Arlin Stoltzfus (arlin at umd.edu)
> Fellow, IBBR; Adj. Assoc. Prof., UMCP; Research Biologist, NIST
> IBBR, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
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Chris Baron
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