pbuttigieg
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4 years ago This is a great resource, getting it out there in SKOS is hugely helpful. We can certainly try to map to it and extend where needed. Do you have anyone in mind that can work on the corpus? Or perhaps we can organise a hackathon or two?
We have recently completed the encoding of the 'Landform' chapter from the Australian soil and land survey field handbook (3rd edn) which is broadly used in ecology surveys in Australia. See http://registry.it.csiro.au/sandbox/soil/asls/landform
The classification is encoded as SKOS Concepts, organized into a hierarchy of SKOS Collections, to mirror the arrangement in the book as closely as we could - 340 definitions altogether. Apart from that, the editors of this implementation (Linda Gregory and me) do not claim any ontological rigour in this arrangement - the definitions and the organization of the concepts are directly from the original publication as a chapter in the ASLS, with its own authors as noted. However, the careful way that it was laid out in the original publication offered an opportunity for conversion to this linked data form with at least shallow semantics. Publishing it this way is intended to provide a baseline either for further evolution of the classification, else for alignment with other systems, such as ENVO, which may have a more rigorous axiomatization.
From the point of view of ENVO it might also provide a checklist of concepts that should be available.