Changed My Markup for PDF's for now I will be using the UDFR PDF mime-type URI

[Peter DeVries]

Hi Pedants,

After reviewing this thread, I changed the way I describe PDF's.

For now I have decided to use the UDFR identifier for the PDF mime-type.

Here are the relevant sections for the Cougar (Puma concolor) RDF representation 

http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf

The description of the PDF file.

  <bibo:Document rdf:about="http://assets.geospecies.org/spec_concept_uuid/603bebac-cc44-4168-bbf7-b11b976f9d79/Felis_concolor_Linnaeus_1771.pdf">

    <rdfs:label>PDF of the Original Description of Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)</rdfs:label>

    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species"/>

    <dcterms:format rdf:resource="http://udfr.org/udfr/u1r109"/>

    <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf"/>

  </bibo:Document>

Each species should have an original published description. 

In the absence of complete information about these, I create a URI so I can make statements about what I do know about these publications.

The original description for the Cougar is out of copyright and available as a PDF, so I link to it in the RDF section describing the orignal species description

  

    <txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription rdf:about="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#OriginalDescription">

    <rdfs:label>Original Description of Puma concolor se:v6n7p</rdfs:label>

    <!-- Ideally, this should link to a resource in Citebank -->

    <dcterms:identifier>http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#OriginalDescription</dcterms:identifier>

    <dcterms:description>LOD metadata about the original species description relating to Species Concept Puma concolor se:v6n7p</dcterms:description>

    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p#Species"/>

    <dcterms:creator rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Carl_Linnaeus"/>

    <txn:originalName>Felis concolor Linnaeus 1771</txn:originalName>

    <txn:yearPub rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/1771"/>

    <dcterms:hasFormat rdf:resource="http://assets.geospecies.org/spec_concept_uuid/603bebac-cc44-4168-bbf7-b11b976f9d79/Felis_concolor_Linnaeus_1771.pdf"/>

    <!-- There should be a type specimen. Add link to GBIF via 'txn:sodHasTypeSpecimen' if they know about it. -->

    <wdrs:describedby rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf"/>

  </txn:SpeciesOriginalDescription>

I hope to have a matching updated RDF dump with the changes in the next few days.

It will have 118,850 species, better linking to related entities and 99% of the matching EoL.org pages.

* There are currently ~280 species that have non-unique EoL ID's because of differences in the EoL, USDA Plants, and eBird data sets.

Thank you for the comments and suggestions,

Respectfully,

-- Pete

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Pete DeVries
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
445 Russell Laboratories
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Email: pdev...@wisc.edu
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[Aidan Hogan]

Hi Peter,

Looks good! As per the other thread of emails, my only concern is that
those UDFR identifiers do not (seem to) dereference to RDF. If they
would dereference to RDF -- and without a IANA-endorsed bag of URIs --
this would be a good solution IMO.

Cheers,
Aidan

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