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A gentle introduction to the Species Profile Model
Robert A. MorrisDepartment of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
Doesn’t talk as fast as Greg Whitbread
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Species Profile Model
• An extension of the TDWG LSID RDF Vocabularies (“lsid vocs”)
• Designed by Roger Hyams with input from a small GBIF workshop in 2007
• Adds named classes of objects representing 37 biological concepts
• Supports, but doesn’t specify, controlled vocabularies for use with those concepts
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SPM Advantages
• Lightweight (with suitable tools) way to say stuff about a Taxon(Concept) in such a way that – producer and consumer software can “agree” about
the domain of discourse (e.g. Description, Cytology, Phenology, Ecology, LifeCycle, Reproduction, ...)
– can represent attributes either in plain text or with controlled vocabulary (or both)
– can extend TDWG LSID vocabularies to encompass existing controlled vocabularies (with care)
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SPM Advantages
• Lightweight (with suitable tools) way to say stuff about a Taxon(Concept) in such a way that – supports data integration– supports machine reasoning (presently)– can express context of assertions about taxa, e.g. :
• Callithomia hezia has larval host plant Lycianthes sanctaeclarae throughout Central America
• More ubiquitous than you think:RSS Annotea
Adobe XMP
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SPM Disadvantages
• RDF technology harder to master and support than XML Schema
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RDF
• Triples – (Subject, Predicate, Object)
– Stack of sublanguages, progressively more expressive, but the last (“OWL Full”) is logically incomplete and computationally intractible (i.e. scales exponentially)
– Next to last (“OWL DL”) is quite good for machine reasoning
– Several expressions, including RDF/XML, not meant to be human readable, but mostly are.
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InfoItems
• Biology• Description
– Size• Cytology• Physiology• Molecular Biology• Ecology• Conservation• Distribution• Use
• Evolution• TaxonBiology• TrophicStrategy• Cyclicity• Dispersal• Migration• LifeCycle• Reproduction• Growth• Life Expectancy
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InfoItems
• Genetics• Associations• Diseases• Habitat• Behaviour• PopulationBiology• GeneralDescription• DiagnosticDescription• LookAlikes
• Key• Morphology• Management• ConservationStatus• Legislation• Threats• Trends• Procedures
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SPM Applications
Data integration
Quality assurance via machine reasoning
Hypothesis testing, assertion comparisons, ....
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IPR
• Quercus ilex rotundifolia (c) Valter Jacinto http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/344302650_3fc76697d0.jpg?v=0cc by-nc-sa licensed
• RDF stack (c)W3C used with permission
• Cartoon fruit from Microsoft PowerPoint images web library. Permission unknown.