Talk:Global Names Architecture
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Topics for discussion for the GNA Vocabulary
Discussion topics are below organized by sub-header.
Namespace for the GNA Terms
The GNA Vocabulary is defined at the "http://rs.gbif.org/terms/1.0/". Perhaps it is useful to migrate the GNA terms to a dedicated namespace such as "http://rs.gbif.org/terms/gbif/gna#" or "http://purl/gbif/gna#" to support long-term persistence! --Dag Endresen 09:37, 5 April 2012 (CEST)
Draft RDF Vocabulary for the GNA Terms
I have uploaded to the Sandbox of the Resources Registry a draft vocabulary of "GNA Terms" (http://rs.gbif.org/sandbox/terms/gbif/gna.rdf). I believe that these terms were minted by GBIF as part of the Global Names Architecture (GNA) initiative. The "GNA Terms" are also described at this KOS Vocabulary Wiki (http://kos.gbif.org/wiki/GNA) where they can be discussed by the community and developed further in a collaborative manner; eg by the ECAT committee (?). This KOS Vocabulary Wiki can be configured with Semantic Forms for a more user-friendly management of the SKOS/RDF resource. --Dag Endresen 09:37, 5 April 2012 (CEST)
Darwin Core Extensions
The "GNA Terms" are today used by some of the Darwin Core Extensions created by GBIF (http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/). However, these extensions references the terms by URIs that generally do not resolve. To support the reuse of these terms by others we should as a best practice provide the descriptions of the terms when the URIs used to identify them are accessed; and the W3C recommendation is to provide machine readable RDF when the URI is resolved. The next step after discussing the format and content of the RDF resource temporary located at http://rs.gbif.org/sandbox/terms/gbif/gna.rdf could therefore be to update the resolution so that terms such as eg. http://rs.gbif.org/terms/1.0/isMarine would redirect and resolve to the (draft) RDF vocabulary that is for now temporary located at the GBIF Resources Registry Sandbox. We can use content negotiation to let the machine see the RDF and humans to see a HTML page transformed by XSLT (under development). --Dag Endresen 09:37, 5 April 2012 (CEST)
