[obs] Species occurrences in OBOE

[Matt Jones]

Hi Hilmar,

Its definitely possible to represent a DarwinCore (DwC) record or set of
records using OBOE.  The model is general enough to accomodate these types
of scientific observations, including specimen occurrence records, which are
really just a specialized form of population survey in which the specimens
are at times preserved.  The crux, of course, is having an appropriate OBOE
extension ontology that captures the essence of Darwin Core's model in OWL.
 We have not worked on that, and given the discussion of DwC concepts that
has been occurring on tdwg-content over the last few weeks about the meaning
of DwC terms, that might be a challenge.

Nevertheless, I'll try to work up a DwC record represented in OBOE as a
point for discussion, and I'll send it here. And I'll probably add it to the
use case pages on the SONet site somehow.

Matt

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at nescent.org> wrote:

> Specimen records and species occurrence records are probably most typically
> transported in Darwin Core (DwC). Bob Morris and I are wondering whether
> anyone has thought yet about wrapping such a DwC record in an OBOE document.
>
> The OBOE paper doesn't provide a treatment of this, and my recollection
> from the TDWG Task Group meeting is that it hasn't been thought through yet.
> Also, looking at OBOE, DwC terms might be used to describe the Entity, but a
> direct wrapping does not seem obvious if not impossible. That's not to say
> that a DwC occurrence (an observation) couldn't be mapped to an equivalent
> OBOE document, but in my recollection such a mapping has not been defined
> yet.
>
> Can those who are more familiar with OBOE confirm this or provide pointers
> to where this question is being dealt with?
>
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