[seek-taxon] proposal to modify EML to facilitate taxonomic resolution - first draft
Nico Franz
franz at nceas.ucsb.edu
Fri Oct 14 11:35:18 PDT 2005
Hi all:
We've put together a document (see attachment) that suggests a number
of modification to EML in order to better support Taxon's resolution
services in the future.
The main points are:
1. Concepts should become the fundamental unit for handling observations
in EML and Morpho.
2. We also need a fuller capability to represent information about
(just) names (e.g. name authors and year/page of publication).
3. It is not clear that EML/Morpho can handle GUIDs for concepts => we
will need that.
4. The structure for documenting identifications in EML & Morpho must be
revised to handle concepts, GUIDs, and a more flexible/powerful
semantics to express ambiguity in the ID (set relationships, and/or,
etc.). [two related proposals are illustrated in the document]
5. The convention to add higher-level names is useful to support key
word search functions, but it is neither necessary nor very helpful from
a perspective of using concepts.
There is more detail in the actual document and also some information
about the taxonomy-carrying structures in EML and Morpho as of now.
We're welcoming comments and additional points for improvement,
either now (preferred!!) or in San Diego.
Best,
Nico
*Nico M. Franz, Ph.D.
*Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
MSB, Room # 3411, University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
Phone: (805) 893-5934; Fax: (805) 893-8062; E-mail: franz at nceas.ucsb.edu
Website: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~franz/
<http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/%7Efranz/>
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