Trevor Paterson
A universal character model and ontology of defined terms for taxonomic description.
Paterson, Trevor; Kennedy, Jessie; Pullan, Martin R; Cannon, Alan; Armstrong, Kate E; Watson, Mark F; Raguenaud, Cedric; McDonald, Sarah M; Russell, Gordon
Authors
Prof Jessie Kennedy J.Kennedy@napier.ac.uk
Enhanced Associate
Martin R Pullan
Dr Alan Cannon A.Cannon@napier.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Kate E Armstrong
Mark F Watson
Cedric Raguenaud
Sarah M McDonald
Dr Gordon Russell G.Russell@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Contributors
E Rahm
Editor
Abstract
Taxonomists classify biological specimens into groups (taxa) on the basis of similarities between their observed features (characters). The description of these characters is therefore central to taxonomy, but there is currently no agreed model, defined terminology nor methodology for composing these descriptions. This lack of a common conceptual model, together with the individualistic working practices of taxonomists, means that descriptions are not composed consistently, and are not easy to interpret and re-use, nor are datasets comparable. The purpose of the Prometheus II project is to improve the interpretation and comparison of plant descriptions. To this end we propose a new conceptual model for unambiguously representing character descriptions, and have developed a controlled vocabulary as an ontology of defined terms, which will be used to describe specimens according to our character model
Citation
Paterson, T., Kennedy, J., Pullan, M. R., Cannon, A., Armstrong, K. E., Watson, M. F., …Russell, G. (2004). A universal character model and ontology of defined terms for taxonomic description. In E. Rahm (Ed.), Proceedings of Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) (63-78)
Conference Name | Data Integration in the Life Sciences. First International Workshop, DILS 2004 |
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Start Date | Mar 25, 2004 |
End Date | Mar 26, 2004 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2004 |
Deposit Date | Jun 9, 2008 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 63-78 |
Series Title | Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Subseries Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics |
Series Number | LNBI 2994 |
Edition | LNBI 2994 |
Book Title | Proceedings of Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) |
ISBN | 3540213007 |
Keywords | Biological computing; Biological classification; Taxonomy; Plant description; Ontologies; Artificial Intelligence; Prometheus II; |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1773 |
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