suggest to use skos terms to express term relations

[jhpoelen]

as found via https://opentraits.org/update/2022/06/21/open-traits-network-2022-virtual-meeting.html Open Traits Network 2022 Virtual Meeting

and presented by Jessica Titocci (see screenshot attached)

[n8upham]

We had a back-and forth discussion with Rod Page about similar taxonomic alignment probelms back in December: https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2022/01/large-graph-viewer-experiments.html -- and see the Twitter thread that started it: https://twitter.com/n8_upham/status/1474405499542118400

[jhpoelen]

@n8upham thanks for sharing your references on ways to express taxonomic alignments in structured ways.

I wonder whether @rdmpage has anything to add at this point: RCC5 vs skos for taxonomic alignment.

[rdmpage]

@jhpoelen @n8upham I've nothing to add at this point, due to limited bandwidth more than anything else.

I always though of the tree differences more in terms of taxonomic operations (e.g., this species was moved to this genus, this species was synonymies with this, etc.). In other words, capturing what taxonomists did, rather than describing relationships between the trees. Something like an edit list.

[jhpoelen]

@rdmpage thanks for sharing your notes - I agree that keeping track of edit lists and being apply to apply taxonomic operations to datasets would a neat way to get different taxonomic perspectives of known origin.

Please do share any Page rants about the topic . . . I usually find them quite amusing. Also, I'll see what I can do to allow for https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/nomer to apply taxonomic operations to existing name lists.