Taxonomy

Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Biodiversity resource information ontology - introduced species, taxonomic information, geographic location.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonomic Network

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:46:00 -0800

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility network provides users access to millions of biodiversity records from over 200 data providers. The project uses Species 2000 Catalogue of Life (Species 2000 uses ITIS) as the authority on taxonomic classifications, especially for records without the full set of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum and kingdom.

Invasive Species Thesaurus

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

ITIS Taxonomic Codes

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:31:00 -0800

In 1996, over 200,000 NODC codes were transferred to the ITIS taxonomic database for management. Their goal is "to create an easily accessible database with reliable information on species names and their hierarchical classification" from both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. ITIS has become the authority on taxonomic classification and coding.

MESH: Mapping European Seabed Habitats

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:22:00 -0800

The MESH program goal is to develop international standards and protocols for seabed mapping studies. The end products will include a meta database of mapping studies, and guidance for marine habitat mapping including protocols and standards.

In the basic search page, there is a list of pointers to different habitat mapping vocabularies.

NASA Instrument Taxonomy

graybeal — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:15:00 -0800

Description
The instrument vocabulary results from an extended taxonomy development effort over multiple years, in this domain and others.

NODC Taxonomic Codes

kwalz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:55:00 -0800

The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) taxonomic code was transferred to ITIS in 1996 for management (see ITIS Taxonomic Database). NODC taxonomic codes are no longer being assigned. ITIS now assigns unique taxonomic serial numbers (TSNs) for each species. The NODC code used 12-digit numbers that coded taxonomic relationships through the use of 2-digit couplets.

Semansys Taxonomy Viewer

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:25:00 -0800

From download page: "Semansys Taxonomy Viewer reveals the structure and concepts concealed in the complicated XBRL standard. Use this tool to explore and understand taxonomies, or to explain taxonomies to others."

Species 2000 Catalogue of Life

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:15:00 -0800

The Species 2000 taxonomic project uses 47 databases from around the world to provide access to the world's species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes). Currently, these combined databases cover approximately 50% of the total known species. The project uses the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) to populate their Catalogue of Life.

TaxonomicID Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Ontology describing the hierarchy for taxonomic names of organisms.

Taxonomy (Multi-Level Vocabulary)

carynn — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:13:00 -0800

Flat Vocabularies					Multi-Level Vocabularies		Relational Vocabularies

uBio

ngalbraith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:10:00 -0800

http://www.ubio.org/index.php