Traits¶

• BIEN trait database: Update

Meeting with Mark and Jim on 2012-1-12¶

• traits will use an ontology
• individual measurement may have weather context
• tuple deconstruction: location, ownership, physical context
• Cyril has traits data
• BIEN2 has traits data

Ontologies¶

• ontology: a thesaurus
• like ERD, UML, but a logic framework
• Linked Open Data: a way of tagging things
• OWL w/ XML-RDF triples
• Skia
• Freebase (Google)
  • curated graph of terms
  • tag items
  • automated construction of queries
• used in gene sequencing
• TNRS maintains history of taxonomic names