There is also a community-supported ontology for taxonomy called Darwin Core at:
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#kingdom > On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:06:08 -0500 > > Peter DeVries <[email protected]> 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? > > 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.
