Re: [xtm-wg] Re: Trying to locate zoological taxonomy

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Ronald Poell wrote:
> 
> Hello Murray,
> 
> In addition to Peter's answer:
> 
> There is some good stuff at a finish site:
> http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/
> 
> If you wish I can give you a dump in a xml format of the things I have
> in Notion System
> - 22,771 animals
> - 10,486 plants
> (Latin and a lot of common names in french, dutch, english,
> indonesian, ...)

Yikes. I suppose I should always be careful what I ask for. But how
could I refuse a document already in XML? I've been generally 
converting much more raw content (often HTML tables) into Linear Topic
Map (LTM) notation, then feeding it into my LTM-to-XTM converter. I'm
certain to be able to make more sense of XML, so I'm game.

Thanks also, Peter. I managed to also locate the Tree of Life at
<http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html>, which seems
like a good candidate for someone to topic map the site, though
on searching around some of the links Peter provided, there may be
even better candidates.

I figure a nice zoological topic map could hook into a Cycorp ontology
topic map, which provided a geographical region topic map (which I've
got pretty much finished) would provide zoologists with a way to
hook descriptions of animals and their habitat into a global ontology.
Add Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress, etc. and we're
talking a nice big (but functional) KB.

Okay, throw those animals and plants my way... I don't know what I'll 
do with the Indonesian, but it'll probably end up in the topic map 
somehow, if I can swing it.

And thanks!

[Now all I need is 36 hours in every day...]

Murray

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Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
XML Technology Center
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      The rice leaves in the garden
      Rustle in the autumn wind
      That blows through my reed hut.  -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu

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