[tdwg-guid] taxon concepts in dublin core

[Robert Huber]

Thank you Kevin!

Yes you are right, it makes no sense trying to map TCS to DC completely, I
was just trying to find a way to offer something in DC which makes most
sense.

I was thinking of something like this:

<metadata>
<oai_dc:dc xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
<dc:format>text/html</dc:format>
<dc:publisher>Stratigraphy.Net http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net
</dc:publisher>
<dc:type>Taxon Concept</dc:type>
<dc:title>Globorotalia mendacis</dc:title>
<dc:date>1969</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Blow</dc:creator>
<dc:identifier>
http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net/taxon_details.php?show_all=1&taxid=1056
</dc:identifier>
<dc:source>
Quilty, P.G.. (1976):  Planctonic foraminifera DSDP Leg 34- Nazca Plata .
DSDP initial reports Vol. 34
</dc:source>
<dc:relation>Globorotalia (Turborotalia) mendacis Blow 1969</dc:relation>
<dc:subject>Eukaryota</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Protoctista</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Granuloreticulosa</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Foraminifera</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Globigerinida</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Globorotaliaceae</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Globorotaliidae</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Globorotalia</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Globorotalia mendacis</dc:subject>
</oai_dc:dc>
</metadata>

where I put the informtion about the taxon  in the title, creator and date
fields, the subject fields contain the classification and the relation tag
contains e.g synonymy info . The source tag would contain the reference of a
taxon concept.
Does this make sense?


Robert

2008/2/13, Kevin Richards <RichardsK at landcareresearch.co.nz>:
>
>  Robert
>
> I may be misuderstanding what you are trying to do here, but there is
> little point in trying to "map" TCS to Dublin Core.  The theory is that if
> there were any "overlapping" properties in the two schemas then those
> elements/properties should have been ommitted from the TCS schema in the
> first place and dublin core elements promoted in their place.  As Hannu
> suggested, you could attempt to put a few of the major properties, such as
> the taxon name or GUID, into dublin core elements, but there is no way you
> will "map TCS to Dublin Core" completely.
>
> The reason for promoting DC in OAI is to ensure that there is at least one
> schema that can be queried on an OAI service that is relatively common.
> This schema would only be used for metadata about the service, and TCS used
> for the data.
>
> As discussed on the LSID Vocabularies wiki (
> http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/LsidVocs), the best approach is to
> build a model using elements from DC where possible, and create new elements
> for those not covered by DC elements.  This has been the approach when
> creating the LSID RDF schemas, but probably not as much for the TCS schema.
>
> Kevin
>
> >>> "Robert Huber" <rhuber at wdc-mare.org> 14/02/2008 2:55 a.m. >>>
> Dear all,
>
> This is a bit OT, but at least about metadata: I am curently preparing
> some data in TCS schema and I plan to set up a OAI interface for data
> exchange.
> According to the OAI specifications the use of dublin (NOT darwin..) core
> formatted metadata is obligatory, so I will also try to offer oai_dc
> metadata.
>
> I would like to ask the group if there have been any discussions on
> mapping TCS to DC before? Do you know of  any attempts to model concept or
> name metadata with DC?
>
> many thanks in advance,
> Robert
>
> --
> Dr. Robert Huber,
>
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>



-- 
Dr. Robert Huber,

WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de
Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net
_____________________________________________
MARUM - Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences (location)
University Bremen
Leobener Strasse
POP 330 440
28359 Bremen
Phone ++49 421 218-65593, Fax ++49 421 218-65505
e-mail rhuber at wdc-mare.org
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