- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:06:36 -0400
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- CC: Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org, pedantic-web@googlegroups.com
Toby Inkster wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:06:08 -0500 > Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I would appreciate feedback on these models and any suggestions for >> how they could be improved. :-) >> > > The following: > > @prefix txn: <http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#> . > > <http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Species> > a owl:Class ; > txn:kingdom "Animalia" ; > txn:phylum "Arthropoda" ; > txn:class "Insecta" ; > txn:order "Lepidoptera" ; > txn:family "Nymphalidae" ; > txn:genus "Danaus" ; > txn:epithet "plexippus" ; > txn:author_year "(Linnaeus, 1758)" ; > txn:commonName "Monarch Butterfly" ; > foaf:page <foo> . > > Appears to be an almost identical way of representing a species concept > to the one I came up with a couple of years ago: > > @prefix txn: <http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns#> . > > <http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp#Species> > a txn:Taxonomy ; > # note: txn:Taxonomy rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Class. > txn:kingdom "Animalia" ; > txn:phylum "Arthropoda" ; > txn:class "Insecta" ; > txn:order "Lepidoptera" ; > txn:family "Nymphalidae" ; > txn:genus "Danaus" ; > txn:species "plexippus" ; > txn:authority "Linnaeus, 1758" ; > txn:commonName "Monarch Butterfly" ; > txn:seeAlso <foo> . > > I wonder if you could reuse the URIs I minted rather than creating new > ones? > Peter, +1 Re. reuse request from Toby. It early days, so little or no cost ;_ > If we could stamp out any incompatibilities between the two ontologies, > then I'd be happy to point the http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns URI at your > ontology, so we'd just have a single merged ontology. > Great! -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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