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This is a PROTOTYPE Semantic Wiki intended for the collaborative development, public discussion, and as a service for discovery of biodiversity terminology. This terminology wiki is maintained by voluntarily contributions. Each term is described by separate wiki pages. Terms are identified by their original and normative identifier (URI). This Wiki is a prototype for the evaluation by the Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG). See also the description of terms at the Species-ID Wiki. An overview of the KOS tools is available at http://kos.gbif.org .
The Semantic MediaWiki is one of the software tools to be evaluated by the Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG). The Semantic MediaWiki platform has been proposed by the Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy (ViBRANT) as a user-friendly and easy to use platform for the collaborative development and definition of basic terms. When the definitions for terms are consolidated they can be included into one of the term vocabularies and published at the GBIF Resources Repository.
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Vocabulary Management Tools
These are some of the vocabulary (of terms) management tools that will be evaluated by the VoMaG. Please contact the conveners of the task group or core members of the VoMaG if you are interested and willing to get a user account and help us to evaluate these tools.
- GBIF KOS, http://kos.gbif.org, Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG)
- Vocabulary Wiki, http://kos.gbif.org/wiki/ (this site)
- ISOcat demo, http://kos.gbif.org/isocat/interface/
- GBIF Vocabulary Server, http://vocabularies.gbif.org (Darwin Core extensions and controlled vocabularies/code lists)
- GBIF Resources Registry, http://rs.gbif.org (for published vocabularies, terms, extensions and controlled vocabularies)
- BioPortal demo, no public demo (yet) ontology repository
Vocabulary of Terms
These pages provides examples of how biodiversity vocabularies of terms can be created and maintained using a Semantic Wiki. These examples should be seen only as examples for the purpose of evaluating the Semantic Wiki and nothing more. Some basic information on how to mint a new term is provided here. Terms included in a Darwin Core extension should re-use terms defined in a Vocabulary of Terms (RDF, SKOS).
- DarwinCore - TDWG HTML RDF MediaWiki:Smw_import_dwc
- GBIF GNA - HTML RDF MediaWiki:Smw_import_gna - (archaic: GBIF Terms) (Global Names Architecture)
- Germplasm - HTML TERMS XSD MediaWiki:Smw_import_germplasm (Darwin Core extension for genebanks)
- NCD - TDWG Collections RDF Institutions RDF InstitutionType RDF ContactDetails RDF Implementation at BCI (Natural Collections Description)
- EML - HTML TERMS XSD (Ecological Markup Language)
- ABCD - TDWG HTML, XSD (Access to Biology Collections Data)
- TCS - TDWG XSD TaxonConcept RDF TaxonName RDF Common vocabulary RDF (Taxon Concept Schema)
- SDD - TDWG HTML (Structured Descriptive Data)
- Other Vocabularies as examples. Some of these external vocabularies are imported.
Vocabulary of Controlled Values
These pages provides examples of how biodiversity vocabularies of concepts can be created and maintained using a Semantic Wiki. These examples should be seen only as examples for the purpose of evaluating the Semantic Wiki and nothing more. Some basic information on how to mint a new concept is provided here. Concepts included in a Darwin Core vocabulary of controlled values should re-use terms defined in a Vocabulary of Concepts (RDF, SKOS).
- Species interactions - RDF TDWG MediaWiki:Smw_import_spi MediaWiki:Smw_import_toi
- Geological time periods and events - RDF MediaWiki:Smw_import_geotime
Getting started
- MediaWiki: User's Guide; FAQ
- Semantic MediaWiki: User Guide PDF (SMW version 1.4.3); Quick Reference Guide PNG PDF; SemanticWeb.org
- RDF Validation: RDF (W3C), RDF (Pedantic Web Group), SKOS (PoolParty), OWL (MyGrid); OWL (Manchester)
- SKOS validation Skosify
- XML Validation: W3Schools
- Visualization: OWLDoc (Protege plugin); (NeOn plugin); Ontology-Browser (Java)
- Publish/provide RDF W3C Guidelines
Guidelines (for this KOS Wiki)
- SemanticWiki notes and comments.
- Guidelines on how to mint a new term.
Links
- Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG), http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/
- TDWG RDF task group Google Group
- SpeciesID, http://species-id.net/wiki/Template_talk:Term
- W3C RDF Vocabulary Guidelines (W3C 2004; W3C 2008; W3C 2009)
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices” E.O. Wilson, Harvard University.
