[seek-kr-sms] relations in TCS

[Nico Franz]

Hi Dave:

   That was Shawn's question I think. For an update check out the 
following manuscript: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~franz/pdf/Cardiff.pdf

- Table 1 (p. 31) shows "additional terms" to be used in conjunction 
with the five basic relationships; and
- Fig. 3 (p. 37, caption on p. 34) schematically illustrates the five 
basic relationships.

   There's a bit of discrepancy between the concept relationships 
"allowed" in the TCS and our current thoughts about the most helpful 
terms we want to equip experts with to do these concept mappings. I'd 
say right now the TCS gets a 7 out of 10 for nomenclatural relationships 
(not much to design there for us, but the TCS is not yet complete in 
that department and not too well structured), and maybe a 5 out of 10 
for concept relationships. There is room for improvement..

Best,

Nico

dave thau wrote:

> Hey there,
>  
> I think I remember someone in this barage of emails asking if there 
> was a good description of the relations used in the taxonomic exchange 
> schema.  I'm not sure if this stuff was circulated, but even if it 
> was, it might be useful to re-circulate it.  Attached is a document 
> from I think a year ago, describing the relations used then.  There's 
> also a year-old overview document.  I don't deserve any credit for 
> them, I think they were primarily written by folks in Jessie's 
> Edinburgh group with lots of input from the taxon group.
>  
> Hope these are helpful.  Nico, if you know of more recent versions of 
> these, please pass them along.
>  
> Dave