Re: Request for Feedback, Suggestions on TaxonConcept Species Concepts

2010-06-06 Thread Toby Inkster
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:06:08 -0500 Peter DeVries pete.devr...@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# .

Re: Request for Feedback, Suggestions on TaxonConcept Species Concepts

2010-06-06 Thread Søren Roug
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 pete.devr...@gmail.com wrote: I would appreciate feedback on these models and any suggestions for how they could be

Re: Request for Feedback, Suggestions on TaxonConcept Species Concepts

2010-06-06 Thread Peter DeVries
Hi Toby, I have what I call a lightweight phylogeny that should match up with the fields for the DarwinCore. However, these are more for user convenience, since I don't believe that a species concepts should be modeled as having a fixed phylogeny. A phylogeny is an hypothesis which changes over

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An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Nathan
All, My brains breaking over this one - can see it and can't quite flesh out the details (or figure out if it's worth it) - it's very much a marmite (love/hate) idea that I haven't fully formed, and is targeted at addressing some common problems with namedgraph, reification, provenance

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Damian Steer
On 6 Jun 2010, at 17:17, Nathan wrote: 1: Introduce a 'value' property I have good news :-) rdf:value [1] Damian [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#rdfValue

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Nathan
Damian Steer wrote: On 6 Jun 2010, at 17:17, Nathan wrote: 1: Introduce a 'value' property I have good news :-) rdf:value [1] Brilliant, I hoped that's what it was for (but lack of documentation led me astray!) Great, Nathan

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Reto Bachmann-Gmuer
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: ... :me foaf:name [ ex:value 'nathan' ; ex:type xsd:string ; ex:language 'en-gb' . ] . foaf:name has range rdfs:Literal, this still allows us to say: :me foaf:name [ And do some funkier stuff: :me

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Reto Bachmann-Gmuer
ops, accidentally sent too eraly On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: ... :me foaf:name [ ex:value 'nathan' ; ex:type xsd:string ; ex:language 'en-gb' . ] . foaf:name has range rdfs:Literal, this still allows us to say: :me foaf:name [ ex:sha_1

Re: Request for Feedback, Suggestions on TaxonConcept Species Concepts

2010-06-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Toby Inkster wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:06:08 -0500 Peter DeVries pete.devr...@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# .

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Nathan
Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: ops, accidentally sent too eraly On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: ... :me foaf:name [ ex:value 'nathan' ; ex:type xsd:string ; ex:language 'en-gb' . ] . foaf:name has range rdfs:Literal, this still allows us to say: :me

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Story Henry
On 6 Jun 2010, at 19:54, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: your way of specifying the type of the literal reminds me the recent discussion started by Henry Story: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2010Feb/0174.html following this we could also say: :me foaf:name [

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Reto Bachmann-Gmuer
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: so are we saying that all of these express the same: :me foaf:name 'nathan'^^xsd:string . :me foaf:name [ owl:sameAs 'nathan'^^xsd:string . ] . this two mean the same :me foaf:name [ xsd:string 'nathan' . ] . this should

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Nathan
Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: so are we saying that all of these express the same: :me foaf:name 'nathan'^^xsd:string . :me foaf:name [ rdf:value 'nathan'^^xsd:string . ] . I find it hard to communicate using a term that has no

Re: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Story Henry
On 6 Jun 2010, at 22:22, Nathan wrote: Anything stopping me creating an ex:value which does have a strong meaning and definition where in usage both of the following express the same: :me foaf:name 'nathan'^^xsd:string . :me foaf:name [ ex:value 'nathan'^^xsd:string ] . seems to me

RE: An idea I need help with, or told to stop wasting time on!

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Schneider
Hi! Just a few notes concerning your ideas and OWL DL (I don't know whether this is important for you or not, but some people might find it relevant): Nathan wrote: 1: Introduce a 'value' property Where currently we can say: :me foaf:name 'nathan' . I'd propose introducing an ex:value

Re: Request for Feedback, Suggestions on TaxonConcept Species Concepts

2010-06-06 Thread Peter DeVries
Hi Toby, Here is where we seem to have some differences. txn:species plexippus ; txn:authority Linnaeus, 1758 ; txn:epithet plexippus ; txn:author_year (Linnaeus, 1758) ; I looked at the latest DarwinCore http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Taxon Since it

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-06 Thread Dave Reynolds
Thanks to everyone for the good feedback and comments. I've made some small changes to the ontology based on all the feedback. These are largely small bug fixes and (hopefully) improvements in documentation. The significant changes include: * addition of a transitive version of

Re: An introduction of LOD features of EUNIS

2010-06-06 Thread ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program
Dear Soren, I took a quick look at the EUNIS database. Considering this year is the International Year of Biodiversity can you tell me if similar projects exist for other geographical regions or any projects of a global nature? Milton Ponson GSM: +297 747 8280 Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation