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Federated Description Services and the Library of Life or What can we do with SDD anyway?

Federated Description Services and the Library of Life or What can we do with SDD anyway?. Kevin Thiele Centre for Biological Information Technology The University of Queensland k.thiele@cbit.uq.edu.au www.lucidcentral.com. TDWG Lisbon 2003. Phylogenetic Relationships (cladograms).

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Federated Description Services and the Library of Life or What can we do with SDD anyway?

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  1. Federated Description Services and the Library of Life or What can we do with SDD anyway? Kevin Thiele Centre for Biological Information Technology The University of Queensland k.thiele@cbit.uq.edu.au www.lucidcentral.com TDWG Lisbon 2003

  2. Phylogenetic Relationships (cladograms) Taxonomic concepts (species, genera etc) Increasing abstraction The real world (‘The Field’)

  3. Taxonomic concepts (species, genera etc) “Maps” – field guides, Floras, monographs etc The real world (‘The Field’)

  4. “The Tree of Life” Specimen databases Names Services ? The real world (‘The Field’)

  5. What is SDD? XML Schema, defines instance documents that can represent descriptive information for classes (e.g. taxa), objects (e.g. specimens) and/or descriptors (characters and states) An SDD instance document, may have any or all of the following: • document metadata • character list (in multiple languages and for multiple audiences) • character hierarchies • class (e.g. taxon) list • class (e.g. taxon) hierarchy • fully or partially marked-up natural-language descriptions • coded descriptions • resources (e.g. glossary entries, images, notes, reference lists etc) • raw observation data sets

  6. What can we do with SDD instance documents? Lossless exchange and round-tripping between applications Lossless transforms between coded and natural-language descriptions Full rendering of one description into multiple languages for multiple audiences Sharing of e.g. character resources collaborative projects bottom-up development of agreed descriptor sets Collate new descriptions from sets of existing descriptions Compare and/or merge descriptions Serve descriptions from description databases Federate description services

  7. Lucid Delta Lucid InXight markup e.g. Tree of Life Names Service Compare SDD SDD Import Export SDD SDD SDD Exchange Merge SDD Collate Translate SDD Update Import Query SDD Some possible transforms and operations on SDD instance documents Query

  8. New business rules for SDD taxonomy? • Any new taxon will be described once and only once • Descriptions will be modified, not re-authored • Descriptions will be made using flexibly shared descriptors • Published Floras etc will be replaced by just-in-time delivery of tailored descriptions and keys • Published monographs will become date-stamped works-in-progress • The global community of taxonomists will contribute to a global Library of Life

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