This directory contains a shared ontology for representing the results from Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) requests, which also serves as an RDF data model for storing these results in a triple store.
It was initially created in June 2012 at the first of the Phylotastic hackathon series organized and run by the Hackathons, Interoperability, Phylogenetics (HIP) Working Group at NESCent.
Included here are instance documents (in RDF/XML and quite readable Turtle versions) to serve as examples and also validation of the ontology's use cases. These instance documents are based off of the example on the TNRS wiki page.
Written in 2012-2013 by Hilmar Lapp hlapp@nescent.org
To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this ontology to the public domain worldwide. This ontology is distributed without any warranty. Please the CC0 Public Domain Dedication at http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
When you use this ontology in your work, please give credit to the extent possible, for example by referring to the canonical URI of the ontology, or to this repository. To cite the ontology in a scientific publication, for the time being please use the following article.
Stoltzfus A. et al. 2013. Phylotastic! Making Tree-of-life Knowledge Accessible, Reusable and Convenient. BMC Bioinformatics. Vol. 14. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-158.