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

[Leo Obrst <lobrst@mitre.org>]

Hi, Ronald, 

Thanks for the pointers and by the way, where did you find this
taxonomy? 

Leo


RA Poell wrote:
> 
> Murray,
> 
> I uploaded the animal and plant XML files to my website so you can play
> around with it.
> 
> There are some comments in the dtd that allow you to understand how
> everything sticks together.
> 
> If you plan to do some serious work with it please use these files as
> PSI reference (in particular if you republish the content in XMT form).
> If you make an XSL file to convert these into XTM, I would be
> interested.
> 
> Not all the cross referenced notions are available (yet) but I am
> working on it.
> 
> You can access them via http://wwww.notionsystem.com (XML-Samples) or
> directly via
> http://users.raketnet.nl/rapoell/XMLSamples.htm
> 
> Feel welcom to ask me for complementary explanations, if necessary.
> 
> Friendly greetings
> 
> Ronald Poell
> 
> Murray Altheim 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?]
> > ............................................................................
> > Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
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