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RDF Serialisation of Catalogue of Life
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Revamping the ontology to include all taxonomic ranks of all life #2

Closed looooph closed 1 year ago

looooph commented 1 year ago

While the main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, we can't ignore international accepted standards to be taken seriously and scientifically correct.

The goal is to find a class stucture, that orders all taxonomic ranks of all four international standards of taxonomic and nomenclature in life in one single ontology, without being overwhelming.

Currently known taxonomic ranks in the Catalogue of Life:

genus species family order superfamily infraorder infraspecific name subspecies variety form subfamily subgenus class unranked tribe subtribe subclass suborder infraclass subvariety superorder species aggregate infrageneric name section morph phylum parvorder proles subphylum infrasubspecific name supertribe subterclass subform aberration kingdom natio null superclass epifamily subkingdom forma specialis subsection series subseries

These need to be narrowed down to those listed in the official codes of the different nomenclatural organisations seen in #1

looooph commented 1 year ago

While there are theoretically a lot more taxonomic ranks, for the KGofLife only those present within the catalogue of life have been added. This will be mentioned in the documentation thoroughly.