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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

Trevor Paterson

Martin R Pullan

Kate E Armstrong

Mark F Watson

Cedric Raguenaud

Sarah M McDonald



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
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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