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Property types

Setting a property to Type:URL means the Fact box will display it as an external URL. Use this for terms such as dcterms:license and dc:source.

To do

  • add ISSN-based images for journals
  • bulk import API
  • fix subspecies queries

Use cases

Rimicaris

Taxon:71621

NCBI taxon with a synonym not in GenBank (NCBI name is the accepted one)

Rimicaris aurantiaca a name that is a synonym (see example of asserting the accepted name)

Ideas

Supplementary material is a good source of extra data, e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0505, which has lats and longs for the specimens, whereas DiGIR doesn't


Vocabulary

Starting to import RDF, such as Property:Foaf:name (imported MediaWiki:Smw_import_foaf), and Dublin Core (MediaWiki:Smw_import_dublincore)

Rdmpage 07:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC) Note that the smw_import doesn't seem to preserve types (e.g., strings), so every property becomes a page. This is probaly a bad thing, so for now it might be best to create al properties locally, with a view to linking them to external vocabularies down the track.


Phylogeny

Mammal supertree from doi:10.1038/nature05634 embedded using http://code.google.com/p/tvwidget/ (not debugged fully)

<tvwidget />

Maps

See CAS 226180, or

Latitude: 19°42′47″S
Longitude: 163°39′38″E


For maps with multiple points to work it is vital to have Property:Has_coordinates


Specimens

As for taxonomic names, specimens should probably have name redirection because there will be catalogue number collisions. As an example, CAS 226180 is a herp specimen.

References

GUIDs, such as DOIs have their own page, which redirects to the publication wiki page. We could then support multiple GUIDs linking to the same article.

For example, Doi:10.1007/s10228-003-0184-4

This also means that we can use the GUID to access the publication page easily. We could extend this other GUIDs, such as uBio namebankIDs.

Each article will have it's title as the Wiki page title (are these unique?), this could also be used to link from a name in those cases where we lack a GUID.

Can we embed Google books widget, Flashpaper, etc.?

Google books

I've written a trivial extension that inserts a Google Book widget

<googlebook id="OCLC:4208784" />

See Google Book Widget for an example (seems that the widget can't coexist with all the other widgets on this page).

Flashpaper

We can embed Flashpaper, e.g.

<swf width="400" height="500">http://bioguid.info/files/1519-1397/swf/212126.swf</swf>

This uses a modified version of the [Flash swf] extension.


Make publication metadata editable, as much of it will be broken

Have semantic links to authors

Semanicwiki can do queries over redirects, hence we can recover the names published in a paper even if the link is to a GUID (see A new species of Sebastes (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the Pacific coast of southern Japan

Names

For some notes see [iPhylo blog post]

Taxon names come in two kinds, names (=nameString) and taxon names (=fullNameString)

Use [[Category:Name]] and [[Category:TaxonName]] to distinguish between these pages, and add authority to TaxonName to make unique string for page name.

If more than one taxon name for a name (e.g., homonyms) the [[Category:Name]] page is a {{disambig}} page that lists the [[Category:TaxonName]] pages.

For example Pinnotheres

If only one TaxonName corresponds to the name, the page is a #REDIRECT [[ ]] page, so when user enters URL they get bounced to the TaxonName page.

For example Pinnotheres pisum

Classification

Classifictaion could be done using Semantic wiki queries, and using tags that indicate relationship (e.g., parent), and also what classification.


Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started


ION: Index to Organism Names

ION contains all the animal names data found within the Thomson Reuters life science literature databases - Zoological Record®, BIOSIS Previews® and Biological Abstracts®. Viruses, bacteria and plant names will be added soon.

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