Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Stanley Blum (stanblum@gmail.com)
Received: 19 Jun 2019 | Published: 02 Jul 2019
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Citation: Blum S, Barker K, Baskauf S, Berendsohn W, Buttigieg P, Döring M, Droege G, Fichtmueller D, Glöckler F, Güntsch A, Guralnick R, Hoffmann J, Klazenga N, Macklin J, Morris P, Paul D, Petersen M, Robertson T, Sachs J, Shorthouse D, Walls R, Wieczorek J, Zermoglio P (2019) Integrating ABCD and DarwinCore: Toward a better foundation for biodiversity information standards. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37491. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37491
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For the last 15 years, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) has recognized two competing standards for organism occurrence data, ABCD (Access to Biological Collections Data;
Since their inceptions, DarwinCore and ABCD have become more similar. DarwinCore has gotten more complicated through the addition of terms and has begun to assign terms to classes. ABCD is now expressed in RDF (Resource Description Framework), potentially enabling re-use of terms with alternative structures among classes. At the same time, methodologies for conceptual modeling and representing complex scientific data have continued to evolve. In particular, a suite of modeling and data representation methods related to linked data and the semantic web, i.e., RDF, SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), and OWL (web Ontology Language), promise to make it easier for us to reconcile shared concepts among different representations or schemas.
A mapping between ABCD 2.1 and DarwinCore has existed since before 2005.*
At the time of this writing, we have only agreements from the authors (i.e., conveners of relevant TDWG Interest Groups and other key stakeholders) to collaborate in pursuit of these common goals. In this presentation we will give a more detailed description of our objectives and products, the methods we are using to achieve them, and our progress to date.
metadata, data model, schema ingtegration, ontology, RDF, OWL, natural history collections, taxonomic concepts, semantic web, linked data
Stanley Blum
Biodiversity_Next 2019
See the BioCASE provider software version history. The ABCD to Darwin Core mapping is referenced in version 2.1.0, which preceded 2.2.0 and was issued 2005-07-18. https://wiki.bgbm.org/bps/index.php/VersionHistory. Retrieved 2019-05-09.