[tcs-lc] relationships between vernacular names

[Roger Hyam]

Hi James,

I have marked up an example of vernacular cherry names here:

http://biodiv.hyam.net/schemas/TCS_0.95.2/cherries_01.xml

and linked to it from the LC wiki here:

http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/twiki/bin/view/UBIF/LinneanCoreExampleNames

I have taken a simplistic approach and may have missed your point but I 
believe this is how we would want to represent vernacular concepts.

Roger



Nozomi Ytow wrote:

>Roger,
>
>how can I represent relationships between vernacular names in TCS? 
>We have five UTF-8 strings to represent cherry in Japanese, whatever
>its scientific name is.  I'd like to represent equivalence between
>them without referring to scientific names.  Using
>"is vernacular of"/"has vernacular" here seems an abuse.
>
>If we add a type to enumeration to represent relationships between
>vernacular names, then how the above relationship should be
>represented?  We store the relatioship by triplet of
>RelationshipAssertionID, TaxonConceptID, and a boolean-ish whether
>the TaxonConceptID is FromTaxonCocnept or not; type of 
>RelationsihpAssertion and AccordingTo is stored in
>RelationshipAssertion data object having the RelationshipAssertionID
>(in temrs are TCS equvalent, of course). In above cherry case, it
>would be recorded as equivalent to
>
>(vernacular-equivalence, cherry_in_half-width-Katakana, isFrom)
>(vernacular-equivalence, cherry_in_full-width-Katakana, isFrom)
>(vernacular-equivalence, cherry_in_Hiragana, isFrom)
>(vernacular-equivalence, cherry_in_ShimplifiedKanji, isFrom)
>(vernacular-equivalence, cherry_in_OriginalKanji, isFrom)
>
>where the second element is ID of TaxonConcept retaining these
>reprsentaitons of cherry.  Do I need to create five or ten
>(combination of these fives) RelationsihpAssertions to represent
>it (and hence GUID for each of them)?  I think it is better to allow
>RelationsihpAssertion to have more than one FromTaconCocnept and
>ToTaxonCocnept.
>
>Cheers,
>JMS
>--
>Dr. Nozomi "James" Ytow
>Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene research center
>University of Tsukuba
>Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572
>Japan
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