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

[Mike Cummens <mlcummens@yahoo.com>]

Here is link to the National Library of Medicine
Medical SubHeading browser.  It covers animals fairly
well.  

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2K/MB_cgi 

I have done some data mining and can provide tables of
ancestor relationships for all of the critters if you
are interested.  This is part of a larger project to
map all of MeSH and many currently implicit
relationships to TOpic Maps.

Hope this helps.

Mike Cummens, MD 
--- Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com> wrote:
> Okay. I had someone forward me a message from a
> biologist where my
> question put me at the brunt of some lighthearted
> humour. To quell
> the rumour that I was asking for the list of every
> species in the
> world and how they all relate to each other, let me
> say that I'm
> really interested in creating a topic map such that
> people who
> refer to a living creature (and have that creature's
> genus/species
> already) can link their node into an XTM-based
> zoological taxonomy.
> I certainly don't claim to be an expert on
> zoological taxonomy (heck,
> I don't really claim to be an expert in what I'm
> getting paid to do,
> though I sure swagger a lot at times), and I
> understand that there 
> are several different taxonomical models, depending
> on what part 
> of the tree one is in.
> 
> In terms of scope, I'm guessing that if it were
> possible to create
> a topic map that reached down to whatever level is
> above genus 
> (which seems in some cases to be tribe or
> subtribe?), this would 
> allow the functionality I mentioned above. But I
> certainly expect
> to rely on a real expert to assist me. The USDA has
> an ITIS database
> which I've downloaded, but the download itself
> doesn't give me 
> enough information on how the various taxons fit
> together, though a
> start at least.
> 
> And as I mentioned previously, if the source is in
> some computer-
> readable format (preferably text or markup of some
> kind, but at 
> least text) I can perhaps use it. I've had several
> private offers
> of help which I'm trying to pursue with some measure
> of intelligence.
> (and thanks for any help!)
> 
> Oh, turns out Jack was looking for a project very
> similar to this
> for something he's cooking up, so this would help
> both of us.
> 
> Murray
> 
> [Ronald, does this clarify?]
>
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