Re: Example of Interlinked Data of the Monarch Butterfly from TXN, Uniprot, DBpedia, BBC, EUNIS

Peter

Great! See my comment at
https://plus.google.com/114406186864069390644/posts/jYfWXhA4kZu
What is lacking on your amazing page is just some social +1 buttons :)

Bernard

2012/2/17 Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com>

> Hi LOD'ers,
>
> I am thinking that this might be good example of the benefits of linked
> data - each source contributes part which makes the whole better and more
> usable.
>
> I thought I would ask the list what they thought.
>
> Examples of the interlinked data for the Monarch Butterfly (As viewed in
> the TaxonConcept Knowledge Base view).
>
>  *The KB view is optimized for following the links between the
> interrelated data sets, if you want "pretty" check out the human site of
> each data set provider.
>
> These are different interlinked data sets about this species, the Monarch
> Butterfly *Danaus plexippus. *Just one click away from each other. (bit.lylinks in case the long URL's get munged)
>
> TXN http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp.html
> KB (http://bit.ly/w8Ra8c )
> http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FmCcSp%23Species
>
> Uniprot http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/13037
> KB (http://bit.ly/x4Mb4r )
> http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.uniprot.org%2Ftaxonomy%2F13037
>
> Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_%28butterfly%29
> DBpedia KB (http://bit.ly/y92xEd )
> http://dbpedia.org/page/Monarch_%28butterfly%29
>
> BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Monarch_%28butterfly%29
> KB (http://bit.ly/x08w7f )
> http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnature%2Fspecies%2FMonarch_%28butterfly%29%23species
>
> EUNIS http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/90910
> KB (http://bit.ly/A0bdq3 )
> http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Feunis.eea.europa.eu%2Fspecies%2F90910
>
> One could now assign these to be sameAs and pull all this information
> together, or just pull in those parts that they think are appropriate.
>
> I think some groups are so concerned about keeping their walled garden and
> defending it from other walled gardens that they are missing the big
> picture.
>
> *A global cloud of accessible interlinked data sets, from which you can
> pull what interests you.*
>
> -- Pete
>
> P.S. This example just contains a subset of what you can get by following
> your nose through anyone of these LOD datasets.
>
>
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> University of Wisconsin - Madison
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