
Stumbled across DOAJ, which has some useful biodiversity-related content. Could think about adding this to my OpenURL resolver...
Notes on bioguid.info, an attempt to bootstrap the biodiversity Semantic Web by providing resolvable URIs for biological objects, such as publications, taxonomic names, nucleotide sequences, and specimens.
INSERT INTO issn(title, issn)
SELECT jstor.journal, jstor.issn FROM jstor
LEFT JOIN issn ON jstor.journal = issn.title
WHERE issn.title IS NULL;
...a Firefox extension that turns your browser into a mashup platform, by allowing you to extract data from different web sites and mix them together.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml"
href="http://bioguid.info/rdf/casent:0008682-d03&format=raw">
Some participant from the HCLS-DI2007 workshop, and from the I3 Workshop propose to the community of life science to establish an authority for attributing namespaces used in semantic web to build URIs. This authority will also establish a set of rules for the construction of well formed RDF documents. When someone will use URI approved from the BM authority, they will know that some standard of naming are upheld. The set of rules are good pratices that need to be followed to be in recognized by the BM community.
Much in the way DOI work, BM will certified the appartenance of a namespace to a data provider and disambiguate the naming for it.
authority_namespace:public_namespace:private_identifier
<!ENTITY aelig "æ" >
<!ENTITY ldquo "“">
<!ENTITY rdquo "”">
<!ENTITY lsquo "“">
<!ENTITY rsquo "”">
<!ENTITY ouml "ö">
<!ENTITY uuml "ü">
<!ENTITY mdash "—">
<!ENTITY eacute "é">
<!ENTITY euml "ë">
<!ENTITY oelig "œ">
<!ENTITY OElig "Œ">
<!ENTITY AElig "Æ">
<!ENTITY acir "â">
<!ENTITY oacute "ó">
<!ENTITY iacute "í">
<!ENTITY aacute "á">
<!ENTITY ndash "–">
<!ENTITY atilde "ã">
<!ENTITY uacute "ú">
<!ENTITY auml "ä">
<!ENTITY ocirc "ô">
<bioguid:voucher rdf:parseType="Resource">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://bioguid.info/schema/0.1/Specimen"/>
<darwin:Country>Nicaragua</darwin:Country>
<darwin:Locality>Rio San Juan, 10deg56'N 84deg18'W</darwin:Locality>
<geo:lat>10.93</geo:lat>
<geo:long>-84.3</geo:long>
<dc:title>OMNH 33325</dc:title>
</bioguid:voucher>
REFERENCE 1 (bases 1 to 563)
AUTHORS Schubart,C.D., Cannicci,S., Vannini,M. and Fratini,S.
TITLE Molecular phylogeny of grapsoid crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) and
allies based on two mitochondrial genes and a proposal for
refraining from current superfamily classification
JOURNAL J. Zoolog. Syst. Evol. Res. 44 (3), 193-199 (2006)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<paracite result="parsed">
<issue>3</issue>
<date>2006</date>
<year>2006</year>
<publication>J. Zoolog. Syst. Evol. Res.</publication...</marked>
<volume>44</volume>
<match>_PUBLICATION_ _VOLUME_ (_ISSUE_), _SPAGE_-_EPAGE_ (_YEAR_)
</match>
<epage>199</epage>
<title>J. Zoolog. Syst. Evol. Res.</title>
<spage>193</spage>
<ref>J. Zoolog. Syst. Evol. Res. 44 (3), 193-199 (2006)</ref>
<openurl>sid=paracite&spage=193...year=2006 </openurl>
<doi>10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00354.x</doi>
</paracite>
In order for independently developed semantic web projects to work together, they need to share names for things that they both talk about. Common choice and consistent use of URI's forms the backbone of the semantic web.
For example, if two resources or applications talk about a database record (or the things it describes), they need to use a common URI for the record if a combination ('mashup') of the two resources is to connect information that each resource has relating to that record.
This is not generally the case now.