TDWG should track this and consider requiring/recommending its use if it is
accepted by IETF
Bob Morris
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From: <creed(a)opengeospatial.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Subject: [Tc] Geo URI proposal in draft stage in the IETF
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There is an internet draft that may be of interest to the OGC. I have
provided some review and comments but the authors are seeking additional
feedback. Feel free to contact the authors directly. There are GML
examples in the document.
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-geopriv-geo-uri-01.txt
This document specifies an Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for
geographic locations using the 'geo' scheme name. A 'geo' URI
identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional
coordinate reference system in a compact, simple, human-readable, and
protocol independent way. The default coordinate reference system
used is WGS-84.
Cheers
Carl
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I've been playing with expressing the NCBI taxonomy in TDWG RDF. The
results are described at http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/07/ncbi-rdf.html
(see also http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/07/ncbi-taxonomy-tdwg-vocabularies-and-rdf.…
for some background).
It's still incomplete (I've not put links up and down the tree yet),
but for now the focus is on expressing links to nomenclators that
support LSIDs (such as IPNI and Index Fungorum) so that I can annotate
the NCBI taxonomy via SPARQL queries.
One minor comment, the property "rankString" has been deprecated
(apparently), but it makes sense to retain this as there may well be
ranks that a classification has that aren't in the TDWG vocabulary.
Hence, I'd be keen for this NOT to be deprecated.
Regards
Rod
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Roderic Page
Professor of Taxonomy
DEEB, FBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Email: r.page(a)bio.gla.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 330 4778
Fax: +44 141 330 2792
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Home page: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
A big caveat about the plants section of NCBI taxonomy is that they chose (for genetic reasons) to use the quite incomplete APG system instead of the more universally used Chronquist system. More about the differences at:
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/pfamilies.htm
Soaring Bear Ph.D. Pharmacology soaringbear at yahoo.comhttp://soaringbear.com/nature/WeedsforNeeds.htmlhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/presentations/bear_2005_aug/index.htm
author of http://HerbMed.org & http://HerbInsight.com
--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Roderic Page <r.page(a)bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
I've been playing with expressing the NCBI taxonomy in TDWG RDF. The
results are described at http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/07/ncbi-rdf.html
(see also http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/07/ncbi-taxonomy-tdwg-vocabularies-and-rdf.…
for some background).
It's still incomplete (I've not put links up and down the tree yet),
but for now the focus is on expressing links to nomenclators that
support LSIDs (such as IPNI and Index Fungorum) so that I can annotate
the NCBI taxonomy via SPARQL queries.
One minor comment, the property "rankString" has been deprecated
(apparently), but it makes sense to retain this as there may well be
ranks that a classification has that aren't in the TDWG vocabulary.
Hence, I'd be keen for this NOT to be deprecated.
Regards
Rod
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Roderic Page
Professor of Taxonomy
DEEB, FBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
