2021-10-21 Meeting notes

Darwin Core discussions around Sample and Specimen

• Balance between usage as a vocabulary of concepts or a formal ontology model

• Most Darwin Core users aren’t familiar with classes

• Related note - Darwin Core is based on the vocabulary structure of Dublin Core Terms

Catch up with Peter Wilson - Soil information modelling work

• Guru had a catch up

• Simon will also have a catch up

• … to discuss about information models
  

Revised version of the Yellow Book is underway by Andrew Biggs, Chair of NCST from Dept. of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy

• https://www.soilscienceaustralia.org.au/ncst/

Feature types

How do we open up the TERN Ontology to others for adoption?

DAWE project and the November deliverable

• Easier adoption and interpretation by scientists and survey data collectors

• Spreadsheets

• Maybe we just need tooling on top of Linked Data and Semantic Web

  • TERN Ecosystem Surveillance is creating an app , for example

• Paradigm shift from Semantic Web to something else?

  • Relational design

  • CSV/spreadsheets

  • Will it help engaging with users?

• The TERN Ontology is primarily used for data exchange for most of the other stakeholders. End users may not need to be concerned about the data exchange format.

• Maybe look at how industry is tackling this problem. Most websites provide http://schema.org markup without issues, which the format is in JSON-LD.

• WA data is collected by consultants, which need to be submitted to the BDR.

  • They may not have the technical expertise to supply the data by JSON-LD/RDF.

• CUAHSI use CSV to tackle the problem of adoption

• Tool https://github.com/edmondchuc/excel2rdf used by curators at TERN for vocabulary.