Re: Lightweight RDF to Map Various Semantic Representations of Species

Hi Peter (ccing the SKOS list, as this is a SKOS implementation, after all :-)

I also think that's really a cool effort, with a great potential!

My question would be about your choices wrt. the use of relatedMatch and closeMatch: why do we have
http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p skos:relatedMatch urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:105509 
and 
http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p skos:closeMatch http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/9696
?
All three seem to be about the same beast, namely the one at [1]. I'd be very much interested in hearing about your decision criterion!

Cheers,

Antoine

[1] http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=105509


> Hi LOD'ers :-)
> 
> I am trying to work out some way to map the various semantic 
> representations for a species, in conjunction with a friendly three 
> letter organization.
> 
> The goal of these documents is in part to improve "findability" of 
> information about species. 
> 
> The hope is that they will also help serve as a bridge from the LOD 
> to species information from the three letter organization and it's partners.
> 
> The resources are mapped using skos:closeMatch.
> 
> This should allow consumers to choose those attributes of each species 
> resource that they think are appropriate.
> 
> It has been suggested to me that more comprehensive documents describing 
> species should be in the form of OWL documents, so I have included 
> nonfunctional links to these hypothetical resources.
> 
> I have the following examples, and am looking for comments and suggestions.
> 
> RDF Example  http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf
> 
> <http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf>Ontology       
>   http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ont/txn.owl
> 
> <http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ont/txn.owl>Ontology Doc 
>  http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ont/txn_doc/index.html
> 
> VOID              http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ont/void.rdf
> 
> <http://rdf.taxonconcept.org/ont/txn_doc/index.html>I look forward to 
> your comments and suggestions, :-)
> 
> - Pete
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> Pete DeVries
> Department of Entomology
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
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