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Subgroup on Structure of Descriptive Data

Subgroup on Structure of Descriptive Data. (Gregor Hagedorn Convenor) Bob Morris presenting. XML Schema for the exchange of Characters, states, descriptions of taxa and specimens, and authored polytomous keys Goal was to modernize DELTA

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Subgroup on Structure of Descriptive Data

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  1. Subgroup onStructure of Descriptive Data (Gregor Hagedorn Convenor) Bob Morris presenting

  2. XML Schema for the exchange of • Characters, states, descriptions of taxa and specimens, and authored polytomous keys • Goal was to modernize DELTA • Supports “coded” (i.e. database driven) and natural language descriptions (especially for incremental refinement of NLP against legacy literature)

  3. SDD Provides • Categorical and numerical states (including statistical measures) • Multimedia objects associated with descriptions and their parts • Shared (global) states or private (local) states • Part- , taxonomic-, and untyped hierarchies • Modifiers (“usually smooth”, “usually red, occasionally blue”…) can be associated with statistical measures. • Polymorphic characters support higher level taxa

  4. Architecture • No predetermined controlled vocabulary • Constrained XML-Schema Key/Keyref separates controlled vocabularies (“Terminology”) from descriptions. • Descriptions built from keyrefs to Terminology. Constraints prevent stupid assignments like winglength = “red”

  5. Resources and next steps • SDD 1.0 was approved last year • SDD 1.1RC2 out for 3 months, RC3 likely to be last before SDD 1.1 • Primer, Draft for comment shortly available • SDD Wiki at http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/SDD mainly of historical interest except for RC2 discussion

  6. Current projects • Identify Life (Kevin Thiele)– repository of descriptive terminologies expressed in SDD • Import/export SDD (Mostly SDD1.1 RC2): • Lucid 3 • Norm Johnson hymenoptera db (early SDD) • UMASS-Boston Electronic Field Guide generated EFGs • UMB Import/Export generator (accepts XML schema and mappings, produces Java source code for import/export • UMB visual SDD editor, includes NEXUS import

  7. Current projects • AMNH digitization project has extracted descriptive statements in taxonomic treatments in legacy literature with NLP (Guido Sauter. Karlsruhe) • Fine grained SDD on descriptive statements in legacy literature with NLP (Bryan Heidorn, Illinois, with Donat Agosti, Bob Morris collaborating, maybe aided by a Hymenoptera ontology being developed in OBO by Neil Sakhar (+Agosti, Norm Johnson)

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