Hi,
I am looking for useful URI's for years so that I can say the following
kinds of things.
<TaxonomicAuthor>
<txn_nomen:yearBorn rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/years/AD_1707"/>
<txn_nomen:yearDied rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/years/AD_1778"/>
<Taxon>
<txn_nomen:yearDescribed rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/years/AD_1758"/>
I was looking at the DBpedia entries for this and found these
http://dbpedia.org/resource/1758
and
http://dbpedia.org/page/Category:1758
What I don't see is any markup that says that one year is *before* or *after
* another like this
<txn_nomen:Year rdf:about="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/years/AD_1758";>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">1758 AD</rdfs:label>
<time:before rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/years/AD_1757
"/>
<time:after rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/years/AD_1759
"/>
<vs:term_status>testing</vs:term_status>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="
http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/taxnomen/index.owl#index.owl"/>
</txn_nomen:Year>
I did not know if something like this would make sense or if I am missing
something?
Also if you look at http://dbpedia.org/resource/1758 you will see the the
following
<Taxon> dbpedia-owl:binomialAuthority <Year>
The object of *dbpedia-owl:binomialAuthority* should be a *foaf:Person* or
list of *foaf:Person*(s) perhaps we need something else to markup the year
that the taxon was described.
Like *dbpedia-owl:yearDescribed, dbpedia-owl:binomialYear*
*
*
You could also make these people a DBpedia subclass of *foaf:Person* like *
dbpedia-owl:TaxonAuthor* (perhaps a subclass of dbpedia-owl:Scientist)
*
*
The authority string like (Linnaeus, 1771) is sometimes referred to as the
"authority", if this is in parenthesis it indicates that the original genus
has been changed
For example this species was originally named *Felis concolor* and had the
authority string Linnaeus, 1771. e.g *Felis concolor *Linnaeus, 1771
What I would like to be able to do is have a visualization of the lifespans
of different people, that also show what years they described species.
This would be helpful in disambiguating taxonomic authors and finding
errors in the taxonomic literature.
I did not know if if would be best to link to the DBpedia years using the
same DBpedia predicates or create custom URI's like above on my own, which
interlink with the DBpedia URI's
I have also notice that people often put trinomial names in the binomial
field on Wikipedia and I was wondering if that is something that could be
caught and fixed during the DBpedia processing?
The binomial should consist of the genus and specific epithet e.g. "*Puma
concolor"*, the trinomial should be the genus specific epithet and
subspecific epithet like "*Puma concolor couguar".*
*
*
Also I was thinking that it might be good to capture the extinct symbol
"†" used like †Smilodon on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon and mark
up the taxon with a an "extinct" URI something like
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Smilodon> dbpedia-owl:status
dbpedia_category:extinct
And remove the "†" character from dbpedia_prop:genus "Smilodon"
You can also infer that if the family for this taxon is extinct than any
subfamilies, genera, or species are also extinct.
One last thing is that you can safely replace the "&" in the authority
string with "and" in the RDF so (d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1844) => (d'Orbigny
and Gervais, 1844).
Respectfully,
- Pete
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Pete DeVries
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
445 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Email: [email protected]
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