ActorExistingDataSources This is a tentative list of data suppliers who may want to interoperate using TDWG standards at some point. Name Data Technology Notes ...

ArchTalk Here is a talk that explains the background behind the architecture. It is focussed on explaining the relationships between XML documents and semantic object ...

ArchitectureOverview The stated strategy of the Technical Architecture Group is to "Produce a yearly review and forecast of technical issues within TDWG prior to ...

AutoGenerationOfXMLSchema Javier says: In the real world there will be lot of times where we will need to create XML schemas from these TAG classes and the TDWG subgroups ...

BackgroundReading Combining RDF and XML Schemas to Enhance Interoperability Between Metadata Application Profiles http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane hunter ...

BaseActor Textual Definition Properties Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override Discussion

BaseDefinedTerm Textual Definition Word or phrase used in a definite or precise sense in some particular subject. 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property ...

BaseMediaObject Textual Definition Properties Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override subject BaseThing 0.. ...

BaseName Textual Definition Properties Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override Discussion

BaseOntology Base Classes/Concepts CLASS SUPERCLASS BaseThing BaseSpace BaseThing BaseActor BaseThing BaseName BaseThing BaseDefinedTerm BaseThing ...

BaseSpace Textual Definition Properties Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override Discussion

BaseThing Textual Definition Properties Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override guid xsd:string 1 label xsd ...

BdiCoreOntology Base Classes/Concepts CLASS SUPERCLASS CoreBioObservation CoreObservation CoreBioSpecimen CoreSpecimen CoreBioSpecimenCollection CoreCollection ...

BioMoby http://biomoby.open bio.org/

ClassDefinitionTemplate Textual Definition Text Description Here 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property Range Description Evidence Status ...

CollectionLsidVoc This is a summary of the LSID Vocabulary for Collection. Read LsidVocs information on LSID Vocabularies in general. Resources The RDF OWL ...

CommunicatingSemanticsWithXMLSchema These are some notes on problems in communicating meaning with XML Schema and possible solutions. Are the Semantics in the Schema ...

CoreBioObservation Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreObservation Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override ...

CoreBioSpecimen Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreSpecimen Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override belongsTo ...

CoreBioSpecimenCollection Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreCollection Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override ...

CoreBioSpecimenGathering Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreGathering Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override ...

CoreCharacter Textual Definition One of the distinguishing features of a taxon (CoreTaxonConcept) or specimen (CoreSpecimen). adapted from 1 A character is a variable ...

CoreCollection Textual Definition A number of objects collected or gathered together, viewed as a whole, ... of scientific specimens, objects of interest, works ...

CoreConcept Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status hasName BaseName ...

CoreConceptRelationshipAssertion Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status accordingTo ...

CoreConceptRelationshipAssertionTypeTerm Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence ...

CoreContactInformation Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Discussion ...

CoreDefinedTerm Textual Definition Word or phrase used in a definite or precise sense in some particular subject. 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property ...

CoreDescription Textual Definition A Statement which describes, sets forth or portrays; a graphic or detailed account of a thing. 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary ...

CoreDescriptiveElement Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status aboutStructure ...

CoreDescriptiveTerm Textual Definition 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property Range Description Evidence Status Discussion Please ...

CoreGathering Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status by BaseActor gatheredAt ...

CoreGeographicRegion I assume this intends to cover geographic areas ( named area defined, like nat. park, watershed, city, province, country), but not necessarily ...

CoreGeolocalisation Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status by BaseActor ...

CoreIdentification Textual Definition The determination of identity; the action or process of determining what a thing is; the recognition of a thing as being what ...

CoreIdentificationEvent Textual Definition The determination of identity; the action or process of determining what a thing is; the recognition of a thing as being ...

CoreIdentificationKey Properties CoreIdentificationKey ABCD DwC SDD TCS Coreproperty addyourproperty

CoreImage Textual Definition Text Description Here 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property Range Description Evidence Status

CoreInstitution Textual Definition An establishment, organization, or association, instituted for the promotion of some object, esp. one of public or general utility ...

CoreMediaObject Textual Definition A digital representation of (multi )media information with associated processing (e.g. display) functions. Properties Property ...

CoreObservation Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status by BaseActor ...

CoreObservationEvent Textual Definition The careful watching and noting of an object (BaseThing) or phenomenon (Base Event) in regard to its cause or effect. 1 ...

CoreOntology Core Classes/Concepts CLASS SUPERCLASS CorePerson BaseActor CoreContactInformation BaseThing CoreTeam BaseActor CoreOrganisation BaseActor ...

CoreOrganisation Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseActor Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status hasContactInformation ...

CorePerson Textual Definition An individual human being. 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseActor Property Range Cardinality Description ...

CorePlace Textual Definition A particular part of space of defined or undefined extent but of definite situation. 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties SUPERCLASS ...

CoreProperty Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Discussion ...

CorePropertyState Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Discussion ...

CorePublicationCitation Textual Definition A citation or bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page or other published item, with sufficient ...

CoreQualitativeDescriptiveElement Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreDescriptiveElement Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence ...

CoreQuantitativeDescriptiveElement Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreDescriptiveElement Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence ...

CoreSampleEvent Textual Definition The obtaining of a representative exerience (CoreSpecimen). adapted from 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property ...

CoreSound Textual Definition Text Description Here 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property Range Description Evidence Status

CoreSpecimen Textual Definition An animal, plant, or mineral, a part or portion of some substance or organism, etc., serving as an example of the thing in question ...

CoreStructure Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status hasPart CoreStructure ...

CoreTaxonConcept Textual Definition The named classification unit (taxon) as explicitly defined in a taxonomic treatment to which individuals, or sets of other taxon ...

CoreTaxonIdentification Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreIdentification Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override ...

CoreTaxonName Textual Definition A scientific biological name. An object that represents a single biological name that either is governed by one of the biological ...

CoreTaxonNameTypification Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreTypification Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override ...

CoreTaxonRankTerm Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override Discussion ...

CoreTaxonRelationshipAssertion Textual Definition The action of declaring or positively stating a relationship between 2 CoreTaxonConcepts. Properties SUPERCLASS ...

CoreTaxonRelationshipAssertionTypeTerm Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreConceptRelationshipAssertionTypeTerm Property Range Cardinality Description ...

CoreTeam Textual Definition a group of people (CorePerson) linked in a common purpose 1 1. en.wikipedia.org Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseActor Property Range ...

CoreTypeNameTypification Textual Definition Properties Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override typeName CoreTaxonName ...

CoreTypeSpecimenTypification Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: CoreTaxonNameTypification Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status ...

CoreTypification Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status by BaseActor ...

CoreTypificationTypeTerm Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override ...

CoreUnit Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseDefinedTerm Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Discussion

CoreValue Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseThing Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Discussion

CoreVernacularName Textual Definition Properties SUPERCLASS: BaseName Property Range Cardinality Description Evidence Status Is Override vernacularFor ...

CoreVideo Textual Definition Text Description Here 1 1. Oxford English Dictionary Properties Property Range Description Evidence Status

Building a system bigger than any one person can understand.

http://www.envdatastandards.net/ See also EnvironmentalInformationExchangeNetwork

EnvironmentalInformationExchangeNetwork http://www.exchangenetwork.net/ The Exchange Network is a secure Internet and standards based approach for exchanging environmental ...

EstablishingLsidVocabularies There is pressure to establish vocabularies for use by people issuing LSIDs as soon as possible. There are issues that need to be resolved ...

Fix Me This page lists the pages that contain the WikiWord FixMe (excepting the HowToContribute page and this page). By convention things that are incomplete or erronious ...

ForwardCompatibilityAndScientificDataExchange Context: At the TagMeeting1 we discussed the need that TAG standards should be completely forward and backwards compatible ...

ForwardCompatible Forward compatible: Older software can process new versions of data formats which were not yet known at the time the software was created. See also ...

GeographyMarkupLanguage This is the OGC interchange language based on RDF Should consider higher level than the GML encoding see the UML version: https://www.seegrid ...

How to Contribute You are welcome to register and contribute to our discussions and documents. If you do register please create a page for yourself that describes ...

HypothesisJustRdfOwl Hypothesis Semantic Web Activity appears to provide all the tools required to build a rich data exchange system. Why don't we just use them? ...

InstitutionLsidVoc This is a summary of the LSID Vocabulary for Institution. Read LsidVocs information on LSID Vocabularies in general. Resources The RDF OWL ...

Inventing The Wheel There is consensus that 'we should not re invent the wheel' in anything that we produce. This needs stating more precisely. In approaching any ...

LsidLookUp Introduction The problem goes like this: People start labeling the data objects that they own with LSIDs i.e. a herbarium generates LSIDs for its specimens ...

LsidVocs What are LSID vocabularies? LSID Vocabularies are the building blocks of the TDWG Ontology. They provide the semantics needed to describe the objects exchanged ...

LsidVocsDarwinCore This needs to be updated to take into account the new TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc vocabulary that replaces SpecimenLsidVoc and OccurrenceRecordLsidVoc ...

LsidVocsExploring This page explains how to start exploring the LSID Vocabularies once you have read the LsidVocs page. The table at the start of the LsidVocs page ...

LsidVocsIndex This is an index page for the LSID Vocabularies. Previously there were separate pages for each vocabulary but this proved confusing so they have been ...

LsidVocsTapir This page is about LsidVocs. Read the LsidVocs page and associated resources for background information. It assumes you know about TAPIR as well. Response ...

LsidVocsUsage Introduction This page deals with how to use LSID Vocabularies. It is aimed at developers. For background and other resources read the LsidVocs page ...

Main Sections DesignEthos: Some general points concerning how we are approaching the problem and manage the project. RequirementsElicitation: What are the ...

MoSCoW Must, Should, Could, Won't As stated in ProjectConstraints one of the most important things to do is manage scope and this is done by prioritising different ...

OccurrenceRecordLsidVoc This vocabulary has been superseded by TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc. The reasoning is outlined on the TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc page. This is a summary ...

OntDiscussCollection This is a summary of the LSID Vocabulary for Collection Descriptions. Read LsidVocs information on LSID Vocabularies in general. Resources ...

The definition of the attribute: "A link to a citation object that expands on the publishedIn property." needs some revision. 1. I cannot find the "publishedIn" property ...

This is a test comment to see if the system works. http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#TaxonName RogerHyam 08 May 2007

I cannot parse the description at the end what does "see property" mean?: "The number of individuals present in the lot or container. Not to be used for observations ...

OntologyModelingWithUML Please enter text for a new page here. What language should be used? In EstablishingLsidVocabularies Roger put I (Roger) am going to ...

OpeningOWL The RDF vocabularies are supplied with a xsl stylesheet that a modern browsers converts the RDF/OWL code into human readable HTML. To see the original code ...

OpeningXMLSchemata The XML Schemata for the RDF vocabularies do not necessarily open well in a web browser, because the imports are not resolved. If you have a tool ...

PersonLsidVoc This is a summary of the LSID Vocabulary for Person. Read LsidVocs information on LSID Vocabularies in general. Resources The RDF OWL vocabulary ...

PrimaryObjectsAsXMLStructures Primary Objects Can't be XML Structures One suggestion has been to divide the current XML Schemas into smaller modules. Basically chunks ...

Project Constraints A very simple project management methodology will be adopted to ensure a useable architectural vision is delivered within the time available. There ...

PublicationCitationLsidVoc This is a summary of the LSID Vocabulary for PublicationCitations. Read LsidVocs information on LSID Vocabularies in general. Resources ...

QualityAssurance The TAG has a role in ensuring the quality of TDWG products. The management of quality is a well established discipline in the software engineering ...

RdfResources (Thanks to Steven Perry for providing the original list of resources on this page.) Reading W3C The W3C RDF resources can be found at http://www.w3 ...

This is a formal model of the system that is implied by the requirements.

Requirements Elicitation This is the main page for definition of the requirements of a TDWG Architecture. Please read the RequirementsElicitationProcess for details ...

Requirements Elicitation Process Requirements are defined in terms of Actors, Scenarios and Use Cases. An actor is an external entity that interacts with the ...

ResourceDescriptionFramework Triple Store Performance Pasted here in haste... RogerHyam 03 May 2006 I believe scalability and performance in RDF stores IS a major ...

RoadMap2007 The stated strategy of the Technical Architecture Group is to: "Produce a yearly review and forecast of technical issues within TDWG prior to the annual ...

ScenarioDarwinCoreBotanicalExtension http://herbaria.science.oregonstate.edu/?q node/7

ScenarioDarwinCoreObisExtension Summary http://www.iobis.org/tech/provider/questions

ScenarioDesmidSurveyNet Summary Desmids are algae of fresh water (mainly). Five labs are cooperating in this fantasy project to create a network to pool results ...

ScenarioDigirBioCase Summary This scenario aims to capture the current usage of the DiGIR and BioCASE provider networks. Strictly it is not a usage of the standards ...

ScenarioLimnoGene Summary Limno Gene is a fictional project that connects 15 labs world wide who are working on gene expression within the bodies of fresh water ...

ScenarioLimnoPortal Summary A fantasy project that collates the data from ScenarioLimnoGene and ScenarioDesmidSurveyNet into a human readable front end and aggregated ...

ScenarioMappingDarwinCore2Abcd http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/Mappings/DwC2.0.htm

ScenarioMappingHispid2Abcd http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/Mappings/HISPID3.htm

ScenarioMelissopalynologyNet Summary Melissopalynology is the study of the occurrence of pollen grains within honey from honey bees. In this fantasy project 10 ...

SeeGrid https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/ https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/Infosrvices/RoadmapDocument

SemanticMoby http://semanticmoby.org/

Similar Systems Here we list similar systems that may provide solutions or inform the current project. EnvironmentalInformationExchangeNetwork: The US Tribes ...

SolutionHypotheses Science progresses through a process of suggesting hypotheses, testing them and abandoning those that can be proved false. A formal software design ...

This is a place holder for information about the Species microformat a protocol for marking up taxonomic names (in all ranks) using HTML classes, so that they become ...

SpecimenLsidVoc This vocabulary has been superseded by the TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc. Read more about it on the TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc page. This is a summary of the ...

SpecimenLsidVocDoc This is documentation for concepts used in the SpecimenLsidVoc. id Path http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Specimen#/rdf:RDF/ts:Specimen/@rdf:about ...

SubclassOrNot When modeling relationships within a domain the first decision that has to be made is whether we are dealing with an 'is a' relationship or a 'has a ...

Here the analysis model is extended into a formal implementable model

TAPIR Read more on the wiki

Wiped, see TDWGOntologyGovernance .

TDWGOntology See TDWGOntologyTerminology for the language to used in describing the ontology. See TDWGOntologyConstructs for a discussion on what modelling constructs ...

TDWGOntologyABCDAnalysis The ABCD documentation wiki with documentation to all its concepts can be found here: http://ww3.bgbm.org/abcddocs I (MarkusDoering) have ...

TDWGOntologyConstructs This page is to discuss what modeling constructs should be used in building a TDWG ontology or SemanticHub application. Constructs We Should ...

TDWGOntologyGovernance Why The TDWG Ontology needs to be developed and maintained collaboratively over a prolonged period of time possible indefinitely. This will ...

TDWGOntologySizeOfProblem This page is to discuss the current ontologies, how they are used and how they are currently related. It also touches on how they may be ...

TDWGOntologySizeOfProblemABCD Usage Survey A much better version of this is available on the Biocase site here where the concepts are monitored automatically. The ...

TDWGOntologySizeOfProblemDarwinCore Darwin Core is simple but has several flavours and extensions that add to the complexity. This is a spreasheet of the fields ...

TDWGOntologyTerminology This page describes the terminology used in describing the ontology. It is important that we use the same words with the same meaning. Note ...

TagArchGuids This page one of three pages linking in to the TDWG Architecture. The other two are: 1) TagArchOntology 1) TagArchProtocols Role of GUIDs in the ...

TagArchOntology This page one of three pages linking in to the TDWG Architecture. The other two are: 1) TagArchGuids 1) TagArchProtocols Read the WhatIsTheOntology ...

TagArchProtocols This page one of three pages linking in to the TDWG Architecture. The other two are: 1) TagArchGuids 1) TagArchOntology Role of Echange Protocols ...