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Fill in missing biological keywords #14

Open jeffcullis opened 3 years ago

jeffcullis commented 3 years ago

Wherever there's no GCMD keyword (e.g. there's an 'X' in the standard keyword column) for biological keywords in the keywords_with_gcmd spreadsheet, we'll need to find another keyword list or add our own.

jeffcullis commented 3 years ago

The EMODnet Biology course recommends the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstract (ASFA) Thesaurus for keywords.

The ASFA thesaurus seems to be a bit hard to track down. The recommended way is to do an advanced search (institutional login required) of Proquest as described here: https://proquest.libguides.com/asfa/features

There's also a free full text PDF of the ASFA thesaurus available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330956010_Aquatic_sciences_and_fisheries_thesaurus_Descriptors_used_in_the_Aquatic_Sciences_and_Fisheries_Information_System_2018_Edition

I have coped the PDF above into the data integration drive here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d70mZT-gzalx5Q_79AfriLkBhMEyVHa4/view?usp=sharing

jeffcullis commented 3 years ago

I've started an overview document to review existing search tools, interfaces, and higher-level tags and themes for finding biological datasets, using e.g. OBIS, MBON, and other platforms, and also added information about keyword lists and species lists that could be useful within CIOOS here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oQHv2dGbQXLNz05Oiqz3TY0n08s-cDAlr54SykMuPes/edit

pauline-chauvet commented 3 years ago

How do we want to handle the species (or Kingdom, order, family....) keyword ? (the risk is that our list will grow incredibly big if we want to add all Canadian aquatic living thing). I saw you shared https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/portal/index.php, and makes me think but I am not sure of anything (will bring this to scicomm ?)

jeffcullis commented 3 years ago

I think something like what EMODnet is doing for their catalogue species search (filter by higher order family/phylum rather than than specific species) could be useful, as well as maybe having a few keywords for 'important' species like salmon, lobster, eelgrass, etc. However I think we'd need help from SciCom to figure out what the 'important' species are.