[seek-kr-sms] relations in TCS

dave thau thau at learningsite.com
Fri Nov 4 15:38:00 PST 2005


Ah, another thing to (re)circulate - sorry I'm just getting back into
things,

http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TCSXMLExample

Provides a nice dataset of buttercups in an old version of the TCS.  Grist
for the mill!

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nico Franz" <franz at nceas.ucsb.edu>
To: "dave thau" <thau at learningsite.com>
Cc: "Serguei Krivov" <Serguei.Krivov at uvm.edu>;
<seek-kr-sms at ecoinformatics.org>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: relations in TCS


> 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
>
>
>



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