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Re: Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.1

From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <Kjetil.Kjernsmo@computas.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:16:46 +0200
To: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Message-Id: <200810081016.46719.Kjetil.Kjernsmo@computas.com>

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 00:10:01 Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Look at FOAF. The FOAF spec doesn't contain instance data

Right, but the data has to be modelled somehow, so I figured that it might be 
superfluous, if Uniprot allready had a usable ontology for species. I find 
that there are some things there, e.g.

<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/9447">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://purl.uniprot.org/core/Taxon"></rdf:type>
<rank rdf:resource="http://purl.uniprot.org/core/Species"></rank>
</rdf:Description>

but indeed, this might not address all the issues you have. Perhaps there 
isn't a very clear separation between classes and instances, I wouldn't know. 
Still, I would have looked into the Uniprot core ontology, at least to create 
links and possibly reuse where it makes sense.



Kind regards 

Kjetil Kjernsmo
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