a names backbone - a graph of taxonomy
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A names backbone: a
graph of taxonomy
Nicky Nicolson, RBG Kew
Informatics Horizons for the Natural History Museum
24th July 2013
Project and aim
Project
• DEFRA funded
• Split into 3 phases:
• Names and taxonomy
• Collections
• Taxon based information
Aim
• To create, curate and cite semantically-meaningful
objects
• “Things “ not “strings”
A 3-layered model
“Strings”
“Things”
“Graph of
things”
Attempts a transcribing a name:
“strings”
Names in the nomenclatural sense:
“things”
Taxonomic concepts:
“a graph of things”
A 3-layered model
“Strings”
“Things”
“Graph of
things”
A 3-layered model
Name occurrences
Names
Concepts
Relations become more
interesting than the nodes
Multiple opinions – using the
same name nodes
Summary
Implications:
- Changes in the way we create, curate and cite data
and how we present it to systems and users
Applications:
- Integration of data, when that data has been stored
using different classifications
- Analysis - why do differences of opinion occur?
- Synthesis - propose classifications by integrating
existing overlapping concept data
