Hey John -

Like Robert (hi Robert!) mentioned, GloBI is also using the OBO Relations Ontology for defining biotic and abiotic interaction types, just like many other projects.

I've been attempting to collect my thoughts on data format and models at https://github.com/jhpoelen/globis-b-interactions/blob/master/text/on-species-interaction-data-models-and-formats.md . In my experience, an effective way to figure out how to capture/share your data is to use what you have today (as is!) and try to integrate a subset of it with other projects (like GloBI, GBIF). 

Your projects sounds very similar to other projects that have already been integrated into GloBI - a mix of specimen and literature data with their own way of describing interaction terms.

Do you have some samples that you can share so that I can get a sense of what you currently have?

thx,

-jorrit

https://globalbioticinteractions.org

Hi John,

 

We’ve been working with subsets of the OBO Relation Ontology (which if I’m not mistaken is also what GloBI uses) to provide the concepts for interaction relationships in our VERA modeling system:

 

http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/ro.html

 

-R

 

Robert Bates

Research Scientist

 

Design & Intelligence Lab

Georgia Institute of Technology

Technology Square Research Building, 85 5th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

e: rbates8@gatech.edu

m: 770.713.8531

 

 

 

From: GloBI <globi-bounces@lists.gbif.org> on behalf of John Oswald <j-oswald@tamu.edu>
Date: Monday, November 19, 2018 at 9:18 PM
To: "globi@lists.gbif.org" <globi@lists.gbif.org>
Subject: [GloBI] Ontology of Biotic Interactions?

 

I’m growing and extending interaction/association data in my research database on the species of the superorder Neuropterida (Insecta: orders Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera) of the world. The data is primarily drawn from the published literature; some also from specimen labels. I’m interested in standardizing the terminology that I use to describe interactions and associations. I’m interested in taxon to taxon interactions (e.g., species X eats species Y; species X is phoretic on species Y), taxon to inanimate object interactions/associations (e.g., species X oviposits on substrate Y [say, rocks]), and taxon to concept associations (e.g., species X exhibits behavior Y). Can anyone recommend any good lists of standardized terms (with definitions) for this sort of thing? Are there any good, well developed, ontologies for general taxon-taxon and/or taxon-inanimate interactions? I have a list of 500+ “association kinds” (without well-standardized definitions) that I have scraped together over the years. I’d like to plug these into (or convert them into) something more standardized if something more standard exists. Thanks for any suggestions on where I might go next on this.

 

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John D. Oswald

Professor of Entomology

Curator, Texas A&M University Insect Collection

Department of Entomology

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX  77843-2475

 

E-mail: j-oswald@tamu.edu

Phone: 1-979-862-3507

 

Lacewing Digital Library: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/

Bibliography of the Neuropterida: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Biblio/Main

Neuropterida Species of the World: http://lacewing.tamu.edu/SpeciesCatalog/Main

 

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