[obs] Joining DwC, OBOE, PO and PATO
Cam Webb
cwebb at oeb.harvard.edu
Thu Oct 28 03:46:29 PDT 2010
Dear Shawn,
> In OBOE, going back to your original example, one way you could
> specify the measurement of the individual using PATO terms might be
> something like this:
>
> _:o2
> a oboe:Observation ;
> oboe:ofEntity [
> a po:PO_0009001 ; # fruit entity
> ] ;
> oboe:hasContext _:o1 ;
> oboe:hasMeasurement [
> oboe:ofCharacteristic [
> a po:PATO_0000014 ; # color
> ] ;
> oboe:hasValue [
> a po:PATO_0000320 ; # green
> ] ;
> ] .
>
> _:o1
> a oboe:Observation ;
> oboe:ofEntity _:blank1 . # an Occurrence
Very useful. And should DwC eventually accept an Observation class
itself, the oboe:hasContext of the fruit observation could point straight
to that. Or even to the dwc:Occurrence itself of we can consider an
observation to be a type of Occurrence.
Best,
Cam
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