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The annual TDWG conference could provide an opportunity for some of the task group members to meet (http://www.tdwg.org/). However most of the work would be as contributions to the discussions and the evaluation of the software tools.
 
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* Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012). Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. [http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715]
 
* Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012). Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. [http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715]
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== W3C - Best Practices for managing RDF Vocabularies ==
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The World Wide Web Consortium has developed best practice guidelines for publishing RDF vocabularies on the web. A vocabulary management task force ([http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/ W3C, 2006a]) was established in February 2004 (W3C, 2006b). The best practices for RDF vocabulary management was developed using a W3C wiki (W3C, 2005) and later two official W3C Guidelines was published (Miles et al, 2006; Kendall et al, 2008). Miles et al (2006) provides guidelines for choosing between a hash namespace and a slash namespace including configuration guidelines for the Apache web server. Kendall et al (2008) provides guidelines with more focus on development and maintenance of the RDF vocabulary resource itself.
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* W3C (2006a). Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group. Vocabulary Management Task Force (VM). Members: Thomas Baker, Dan Brickley, Libby Miller, Alistair Miles, Ralph Swick. Available at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/ (last updated 7 March 2006).
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* W3C (2006b). Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group Charter. Available at http://www.w3.org/2003/12/swa/swbpd-charter (last updated 20 April 2006).
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* W3C Wiki (2005). Managing a Vocabulary for the Semantic Web -- Best Practice Wiki]. Available at http://www.w3.org/wiki/VocabManagementNote (last updated 4 Dec 2005).
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* Miles A, Baker T, and Swick R (2006). Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. W3C Working Draft 14 March 2006. W3C. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/
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* Kendall E, Baker T, and Miles A (2008). Principles of Good Practice for Managing RDF Vocabularies and OWL Ontologies. W3C Editor's Draft 16 March 2008. Available at http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/Vocab/principles

Revision as of 10:01, 30 March 2012

Biodiversity Knowledge Organization System

The GBIF Knowledge Organization System (KOS) task group (Catapano et al 2011) provided recommendations for the uptake of KOS technology by GBIF. The KOS report, as well as some of the previous task group reports on metadata (Jones et al 2010), persistent identifiers (Cryer et al 2010; Richards et al 2011), recommended to build on existing (or to establish new) persistent identifiers for each vocabulary term and concept. These reports further recommended to reuse existing terms and concepts wherever possible.

http://kos.gbif.org/images/illustrations/GBIF_KOS_Report_(2011)_300px.png


The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) maintains standards for biodiversity data. Many of these standards have in the past been expressed using the XML schema language (XSD). With the advance of the semantic web there is a growing interest in TDWG for expressing vocabularies as RDF resources. We have proposed a Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG) (Endresen et al 2012a) to develop best practices and guidelines for maintaining RDF vocabularies of terms and concepts from biodiversity informatics. Membership of the task group would mean to contribute to the evaluation of these best practices. Previous task groups of this sort has produced a technical report to summarize the results. One part of the tasks for the vocabulary management task group would be to evaluate software tools including the ISOcat and the Semantic MediaWiki for collaborative development and maintenance of vocabularies of basic concepts (declared here to be re-used by other resources). These resources are likely be maintained by a small group of people, and that they will be used by a much larger group of people. One of the uses for these basic concepts is as a repository of terms for the data sharing profiles in use by the GBIF network (Endresen et al 2012b). These data sharing profiles include the Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al 2012) "extensions" and the "vocabularies" of controlled values that are declared for some of the terms included in "extensions". The overall outline is that terms to be included in the "extensions" and in the "vocabularies" would be drawn from the basic concepts declared by the RDF vocabularies. The GBIF Vocabulary Server (Harman et al 2009) provides a collaborative software tool for the development of Darwin Core "extensions" and "vocabularies" of controlled values. The GBIF Vocabulary Server is based on the Scratchpad platform maintained by the ViBRANT project (Smith et al 2009).

We have proposed for the task group to convene at the GBIF community site http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/vocabulary-management/. Members of the task group would start by making a user profile at the GBIF Community site and join the Vocabulary Management group. The ISOcat demo http://kos.gbif.org/isocat/interface/ and the Semantic Wiki (this site) should also be open for users to start signing up.

The annual TDWG conference could provide an opportunity for some of the task group members to meet (http://www.tdwg.org/). However most of the work would be as contributions to the discussions and the evaluation of the software tools.



References

  • Catapano T, Hobern D, Lapp H, Morris RA, Morrison N, Noy N, Schildhauer M, and Thau D (2011). Recommendations for the use of knowledge organization systems by GBIF. Released on 4 February 2011. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen. Available at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=2942&l=en, verified 26 March 2012.
  • Cryer P, Hyam R, Miller C, Nicolson N, O Tuama E, Page R, Rees J, Riccardi G, Richards K, and White R (2010). Adoption of persistent identifiers for biodiversity informatics: Recommendations of the GBIF LSID GUID task group, 6. November 2009. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen. Available at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=2956&l=en, verified 26 March 2012.
  • Jones MB, Bertrand N, Holetschek J, Hutchison V, Ko BC-J, Suarez-Mayorga A, Meaux M, Ulate W, Watts D, Robertson T, O Tuama E (2009). Report of the GBIF metadata implementation framework task group (MIFTG). September 15, 2009. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen. Available at: http://imsgbif.gbif.org/CMS_NEW/get_file.php?FILE=2d85d0e8c76408129024c09aa072d6, verified 26 March 2012.
  • Richards, K, White R, Nicolson N, Pyle R (2011). A beginner’s guide to persistent identifiers, version 1.0. Released on 9 February 2011. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Copenhagen. Available at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=2428, verified 26 March 2012.
  • Smith VS, Rycroft SD, Harman KT, Scott B, and Roberts D (2009). Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics 10 (Suppl 14) p. S6. DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/S14/S6, verified 26 March 2012.
  • Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012). Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715



W3C - Best Practices for managing RDF Vocabularies

The World Wide Web Consortium has developed best practice guidelines for publishing RDF vocabularies on the web. A vocabulary management task force (W3C, 2006a) was established in February 2004 (W3C, 2006b). The best practices for RDF vocabulary management was developed using a W3C wiki (W3C, 2005) and later two official W3C Guidelines was published (Miles et al, 2006; Kendall et al, 2008). Miles et al (2006) provides guidelines for choosing between a hash namespace and a slash namespace including configuration guidelines for the Apache web server. Kendall et al (2008) provides guidelines with more focus on development and maintenance of the RDF vocabulary resource itself.


  • W3C (2006a). Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group. Vocabulary Management Task Force (VM). Members: Thomas Baker, Dan Brickley, Libby Miller, Alistair Miles, Ralph Swick. Available at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/ (last updated 7 March 2006).
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