Re: Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.1

Toby Inkster wrote:
> The same could be said for foaf:name. FOAF doesn't have a big list of name
> URIs that you can choose from, and nor should it. URIs are good, but
> literals have their place in RDF too.

For classes, species and sub-species I agree with you, but you don't 
have a new kingdom every day. But again, the same problem will arise 
when using multiple languages...


> A taxonomic authority is similar to a citation, but it's not the same.
> It's actually closer to a traditional namespacing mechanism. It
> effectively qualifies the binomial term being used, so "Homo sapiens
> (Linnaeus, 1758)" means "Homo sapiens, as would have been understood by
> Linnaeus in 1758".

I see... "authority" seems to me as a formal specification and not only 
"as he understood". In that sense I could put myself as authority to all 
species I know about...

Maybe "first described" (or something similar) could've been a better 
name... but that's just taste... ;)

cheers,
--renato