14 messages in edu.ku.nhm.mailman.taxacomRe: [Taxacom] Habitat classifications?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Paul Kirk | Mar 12, 2011 12:45 am | |
| dipt...@freeler.nl | Mar 12, 2011 1:57 am | |
| Tony...@csiro.au | Mar 16, 2011 8:21 pm | |
| Frederick W. Schueler | Mar 16, 2011 8:38 pm | |
| Jim Croft | Mar 16, 2011 9:16 pm | |
| Peter DeVries | Mar 16, 2011 10:59 pm | |
| Piero Delprete | Mar 21, 2011 9:05 am | |
| Karol Marhold | Mar 21, 2011 9:36 am | |
| Piero Delprete | Mar 21, 2011 12:01 pm | |
| Vitor Fernandes O. de Miranda | Mar 21, 2011 12:17 pm | |
| Sam Brown | Mar 21, 2011 8:28 pm | |
| Lyn....@csiro.au | Mar 21, 2011 8:46 pm | |
| Robin Leech | Mar 23, 2011 7:22 am | |
| Fran...@dmns.org | Mar 23, 2011 9:09 am |
| Subject: | Re: [Taxacom] Habitat classifications? | |
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| From: | Peter DeVries (pete...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Mar 16, 2011 10:59:44 pm | |
| List: | edu.ku.nhm.mailman.taxacom | |
Hi Tony,
The BBC also has habitat classifications in their wo ontology.
I looked into this a while ago and there are a lot of different classifications available. I had started to lean toward some of those that are available as GIS layers since you could incorporate them into a knowledge base relatively easily.
Going back to my idea of geo areas, one could annotate the different areas to one or more habitat classification scheme relatively easily using the GPS locations.
Too little time, so much data :-)
- Pete
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:21 PM, <Tony...@csiro.au> wrote:
Dear all,
I am interested in extending the habitat classification presently used in my IRMNG genera and species database from the present "very basic" (marine/nonmarine/both) to something a bit more detailed - maybe marine, freshwater, terrestrial with up to perhaps a dozen or so subcategories of each, as appropriate (e.g. end up with a little nested hierarchy of maybe 30-50 terms total).
So, I am looking for suggestions of such classifications as may already be in use in order to either pick one up more or less unchanged, or develop something with the best features of several. For example I am familiar with the following off the top of my head:
http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/SyntaxHabitat.htm - 23 terms, coverage a bit uneven
http://mave.tweakdsl.nl/tn/syntax.html - scroll down to the section headed "% HABITAT" -- 56 terms, looks quite useable.
Something like the EUNIS classification e.g. as accessible via
http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats-code-browser.jsp possibly gets too detailed too quickly at this time for my needs, but you never know what may end up being of value.
If list persons can point me at any other resources worth looking at, or comment on details of the above, I would be very appreciative. It also occurs to me that some people may have been through this exercise previously, e.g. for "species / structured descriptive data" purposes, so any pointers to the results of those deliberations would also be useful.
Thanks in advance,
Tony Rees Manager, Divisional Data Centre, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Ph: 0362 325318 (Int: +61 362 325318) Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000) e-mail: Tony...@csiro.au Manager, OBIS Australia regional node, http://www.obis.org.au/ Biodiversity informatics research activities: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/biodiversity.htm Personal info: http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566
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