VoCamp1/Pitches

This Page is for submitting a "Pitch" - a call for a development task - for a particular area of interest to be covered in VoCamp.

• Pitch: Research the status of the TDWG Ontology (http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/TDWGOntology) in view of the recently ratified Darwin Core standard vocabulary (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc) of biodiversity information.

• Pitch: There are several "shared names" initiatives emerging in the broader bioinformatics community (i.e., predictable URI's with predictable and useful resolution behaviours to represent the entities in biology/bioinformatics). Each has some nice features that are ~unique to that initiative. For example, the Science Commons shared-names proposal has proposed a way to register new types of identifiers; the Dumontier shared-names proposal makes a clear distinction between a database record and the biological entity that the record is about (so that you don't end up saying that database records are biologicalInhibitorsOf database records!); and the LSRN is "actively being used" in the community (which doesn't mean that it "wins", but it sure helps!). Since Jonathan and I are at the VoCamp, and can speak to at least two of the three proposals between us, I'd like to at a minimum explore the various solutions and rationale behind them, and get community feedback on which direction they think they would be willing to support. -- Mark Wilkinson

• Pitch: Though it is very early in the project, I'd like to describe to interested participants what the goals of the Concept Web Alliance are. These are, generally speaking, two-fold. One is similar to shared-names in that concepts have a non-language-based identifier that has a predictable resolution mechanism to get to the human-readable concept in whatever language you wish; the second is to develop a standard set of metadata to annotate triples (e.g. given that a triple represents a statement of "fact", who said it, when, under what circumstance, etc.). What metadata is required, at a minimum, to annotate triples? Discussion within this group would be welcome! - Mark Wilkinson

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