Species Profile Model

Definition

The Species Profile Model is designed to enable an entity to express information about a taxon to a range of different client applications.

This definition implies (to RogerHyam at least):

1. The data model does not define the entity - the entity already exists and is referenced in some way...
2. The data model does not define a taxon - the taxon already exists and is referenced in some way...
3. The information is typed so as to be useful.
4. The model must either:
   1. restrict the information to a set of defined information types.
   2. be extensible/modular to allow for a range of information types.
5. Not all client applications are known to the entity.

Elements Charts

Summary chart of the main elements from Fish BASE, Plinian Core, IASPS and Nature Serve:

• http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/species-models.pdf

Top elements selected by workshop attendees:

• http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/aggregated-top-elements.pdf

A chart with element names and definitions developed during the species model workshop:

• http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/speciesModelElements.xls

Schemas for various Australasian electronic flora projects

• A discussion and reporting area for Australasian online Flora projects

Sample Species Instance Documents

These two examples (fish and nematode) are pre-workshop examples made available to get the discussion going and thus differ somewhat from the actual model developed in the workshop (not actually RDF expressed in the ontology)

• Fish record: http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/fish-record.xml
• Nematode record: http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/nematode-record.xml

See also InstanceExamples for further discussions.

These kinds of species descriptions begin to overlap with SDD (http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/SDD/WebHome).

Resources

Plinian Core: http://www.inbio.ac.cr/pliniancore or http://www.pliniancore.org

Nature Serve species schema: http://services.natureserve.org/technical/speciesSchema.htm

GISIN IASPS (Invasive Alien Species Profile Schema): http://wiki.cs.umb.edu/twiki/bin/view/IASPS/WebHome

Fish Base species page for Salmo salar. Note the "more information" box with further species tags at bottom of page: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=236

The definition of SPM can be found here:

http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SpeciesProfileModel.rdf