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

["Ronald Poell" <rapoell@notionsystem.com>]

Murray,

Please give me info about the things below for the details:

would you like:
- each notion in a separate file
- grouped by notion classes (some kind of types)

What data are you interested in:
- names (with their languages)
- relationships
	- with other animals
	- with pictures
	- with individuals
	- with documents (books, articles, web pages, etc)
	- with individuals (named animals)
	- other relationships
(these relationships might provoque a complete dump of NS data because 
everything is related with everything)

Would you like to have
- Notion metadata (creator, creation date, systems maintaining the 
data, thumbnail refs)
- Relation metadata (creator, creation date)

You will get also in separate files:
- Notion classes
- Languages
- Relationships
- Related notions (if any)

Friendly greetings

Ronald Poell

--- In xtm-wg@y..., Murray Altheim <altheim@e...> wrote:
> 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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