Updated TaxonConcept Knowledge Base, some changes / additions with explanations :-)

I have updated the TaxonConcept Knowledge Base data set.

There are some changes that are worth mentioning.

There is an additional download file mentioned in the void and
sitemap.xml.gz
called *se_states.rdf.gz*


    <sc:dataDumpLocation>http://lod.taxonconcept.org/txn_base.rdf.gz
</sc:dataDumpLocation>
    <sc:dataDumpLocation>http://lod.taxonconcept.org/species_01.rdf.gz
</sc:dataDumpLocation>
    <sc:dataDumpLocation>http://lod.taxonconcept.org/species_02.rdf.gz
</sc:dataDumpLocation>
    <sc:dataDumpLocation>*http://lod.taxonconcept.org/se_states.rdf.gz*
</sc:dataDumpLocation>
    <sc:dataDumpLocation>
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/rdf/txn_wi_usda_plants.rdf.gz
</sc:dataDumpLocation>

This contains statements about which species are expected in what
geographical areas (geonames)
** Note this is an early version and it is not entirely correct. If I don't
know about a particular species it is listed as "txn:isUnknownAboutIn"

Alternatives:

<species> txn:isExpectedIn <geographical area>
<species> txn:isUnexpectedIn <geographical area>
<species> txn:isUnknownAboutIn <geographical area>

The reverse

<geographical area> txn:hasExpectationOf                <species>
<geographical area> txn:hasLowExpectationOf          <species>
<geographical area> txn:hasUnknownExpectationOf   <species>

I wanted something similar to a state bird checklist. That is even rare
sightings of wild individuals should be included.

This is similar to what I have done in the GeoSpecies data and EUNIS has a
similar ExpectedIn predicate in their data and vocabulary.

Right now I only have statements about North America, Wisconsin,
Massachusetts, and Texas (for Fishes of Texas).

The plants for Wisconsin and Massachusetts are based on the USDA Plants
dataset.

The Texas fishes are from the Fishes of Texas dataset.

The other organism groups are a little haphazard right now.

Also I changed the txn vocabulary slightly so that it would validate as OWL
2.

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/doc/index.html

The sitemap has been updated http://lod.taxonconcept.org/sitemap.xml.gz

The void file as been updated http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/void.rdf

The human readable pages look somewhat different example:
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/mCcSp.html

  *The intent of these is to provide useful LOD identifiers for species so I
thought it best to not try to create something like eol.org.*

I also ran a new sparql query on the data set to get interlinking stats
which I will send in a follow up email.

My wife is calling us to dinner so I better go :-)

- Pete


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Pete DeVries
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
445 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
TaxonConcept Knowledge Base <http://www.taxonconcept.org/> / GeoSpecies
Knowledge Base <http://lod.geospecies.org/>
About the GeoSpecies Knowledge Base <http://about.geospecies.org/>
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