[tdwg-tag] darwin core terms inside tdwg ontology

[Bob Morris]

There is an OMG Metamodel for ontology description. At least one
implementation of it
http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/atl/usecases/ODMImplementation/
claims to support designing OWL ontologies with UML,

I think it was Markus who pointed me at a commercial product that has
OWL<-->UML<-->XML Schema or something like that. I think I was underwhelmed
by it at Bratislava when I last tried it, but maybe it is better now.


One gotcha about OWL as normative that always worries me is that a lot
non-specialist folks thing RDF means RDF/XML.  That wouldn't stop me from
using it though.  After all, it's a golden road(*) to machine reasoning....
:-)

Bob

(*)Not to be confused with a yellow-brick road.




On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Roger Hyam <rogerhyam at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Markus,
>
> My plan is to produce an abstract model (a text description of the
> classes and properties) and a series of example concrete models. One
> would be the OWL ontology (perhaps this would be normative not sure
> yet) another would be a CSV file format and a third would be a simple
> (one namespace) XML file format. I will define mappings between all
> these (possibly XSLT to get from XML to CSV and OWL).
>
> I also plan to do a mapping from the IPT checklist format to one or
> all of these things.
>
> It would be good to write a couple of tools to do some auto conversion.
>
> If I cut out all the rubbish and only include what is actually used we
> are only talking two classes and < thirty properties so I should be
> able beat the thing into submission quiet quickly.
>
> All the best,
>
> Roger
>
> On 24 Apr 2009, at 12:07, Markus Döring (GBIF) wrote:
>
> > Roger,
> > if you are working on that already, what do you think are the chances
> > to have a one to one mapping from the taxonomic dwc terms to the names
> > & taxon classes in the ontology?
> >
> > We are using the dwc terms not only for occurrence records, but are
> > already encoding pure taxonomic or nomenclatural checklists with
> > simple dwc terms. Within ECAT and also the Global Names Index /
> > Architecture we have started sharing such checklists encoded as text
> > files which are far easier to handle than TCS-RDF, especially when
> > dealing with hundreds of thousands of names. The expressiveness is of
> > course limited, but it allows us to easily share all of the basic
> > taxonomic/nomenclatural information such as synonyms, basionyms,
> > taxonomic hierarchies, taxon concept reference, original publication,
> > nomenclatural code, nomenclatural & taxonomic status, rank, atomised
> > name parts and the classic higher dwc ranks for each name. I would be
> > super glad to see a convergence with the ontology here.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 24, 2009, at 11:54, Roger Hyam wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Peter,
> >>
> >> The TaxonOccurrence standard is not actually a standard. It is part
> >> of
> >> the vocabulary that was put together two years ago and maps well to
> >> DwC.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, as Markus points out, DwC has gone its own way.
> >>
> >> The whole TDWG ontology needs some clarification and sorting out and
> >> as Bob points out this is now done on a voluntary basis.
> >>
> >> I am working on the TaxonName and TaxonConcept vocabularies because I
> >> need to use them. I hope I will provide what Markus requests (good
> >> return type definitions for GUIDs) but I will only do it for taxon
> >> names and concepts because that is all I am working on. I hope to
> >> take
> >> this to a stage where it is solid, documented and standardizable.
> >>
> >> This will entail doing some stuff on the way the TDWG ontology/
> >> vocabulary is presented but really it is not my department to do that
> >> alone.
> >>
> >> This is very important for TDWG (as Markus points out).
> >>
> >> What really needs to happen is for people who need things to happen
> >> in
> >> the ontology to role up their sleeves and make them happen.
> >>
> >> For occurrence stuff I recommend you join forces with John Wieczorek.
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Roger
> >>
> >>
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