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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Robert Bates</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Design & Intelligence Lab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Georgia Institute of Technology</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Technology Square Research Building, 85 5th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">e: <a href="mailto:rbates8@gatech.edu"><span style="color:purple">rbates8@gatech.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">GloBI <globi-bounces@lists.gbif.org> on behalf of John Oswald <j-oswald@tamu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, November 19, 2018 at 9:18 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"globi@lists.gbif.org" <globi@lists.gbif.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[GloBI] Ontology of Biotic Interactions?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John D. Oswald<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor of Entomology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Curator, Texas A&M University Insect Collection<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Entomology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Texas A&M University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">College Station, TX 77843-2475<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">E-mail: <a href="mailto:j-oswald@tamu.edu"><span style="color:blue">j-oswald@tamu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: 1-979-862-3507<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lacewing Digital Library: <a href="http://lacewing.tamu.edu/">
<span style="color:blue">http://lacewing.tamu.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bibliography of the Neuropterida: <a href="http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Biblio/Main">
<span style="color:blue">http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Biblio/Main</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Neuropterida Species of the World: <a href="http://lacewing.tamu.edu/SpeciesCatalog/Main">
<span style="color:blue">http://lacewing.tamu.edu/SpeciesCatalog/Main</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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