Interpreting Taxonomic Databases and mapping their structure to the TCS
Robert Kukla, Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, Scotland.Following on from the previous talk this presentation will summarise the experiences gained from transforming taxonomic data from different data sources to XML files compliant with the TCS. Some approaches used to represent taxonomic information in databases allow for different interpretations of (taxonomic name) data as taxonomic concepts. Advantages and disadvantages of alternative mappings are explained for different contexts. The talk concludes with a discussion on how taxonomic data might be queried and transferred over the network using the TCS.