Weekly reading: Leonelli on classificatory theory in biology
Sabina Leonelli has authored numerous papers on bio-ontologies that relate to our Spring 2015 theme. For this week we will read: Leonelli, S. 2013. Classificatory theory in biology. Biological Theory...
View ArticleThoughts: Bio-ontologies with only minimal predetermined relations
Time for some reflection on this (2015) Spring’s Weekly Discussion on Phenotype ontologies – origins, theory, applications, prospects, and challenges. It gets to be a little (and intentionally)...
View ArticleNew publication: Provenance for explaining taxonomy alignments
A short paper related to the Euler/X toolkit and concept taxonomy alignment project has been published. It deals with the issue of diagnosing inconsistent input constraints in an attempted pairwise...
View ArticleWeekly reading: Practical introduction to ontologies and OWL
This week we will try out Protégé and pizza ontologies. We will work through an updated version of this tutorial. The post Weekly reading: Practical introduction to ontologies and OWL appeared first on...
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Thoughts: How taxonomically binding is biological nomenclature
Biological nomenclature and taxonomy are both different yet also somehow interconnected. It is sometimes stated that the two kinds of practices are largely independent of each other. Yet we also know...
View ArticleThoughts: Why stability in nomenclature, and at what cost?
Another post on nomenclature, related to this previous post on the possibly thankfully strong influence of nomenclatural principles on taxonomic practice. Many taxonomists, including myself certainly,...
View ArticleETC-Euler Taxonomic Concept Alignment Demonstration Video – Minyomerus 2015...
This 8-minute screenshot video, produced in late April, 2015, demonstrates the interaction of the Exploring Taxonomic Concepts (ETC) and Euler/X software tools. The ETC team has built a highly useful...
View ArticleSPNHC 2015 presentation – Taxonomic concept resolution for voucher-based...
Slides are up for our SPNHC 2015 concept taxonomy presentation. Franz 2015 SPNHC Taxonomic concept resolution for voucher-based biodiversity information platforms from taxonbytes The post SPNHC 2015...
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