Re: [Nexml-discuss] [Phenoscape] New page for discussion about top down inferences

[Jim B. <ba...@ne...>]

On Dec 9, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:

>> In the meantime, can we stick the phenotype in NeXML as its own
>> "think" that gets an ID, and then relate it to the state *and* the
>> taxon using the ID and the applicable relationships? (I'm also copying
>> the NeXML list here in case they can help with answering that.)
> 
> States are defined per column (character) and are linked per cell to
> the applicable taxon, so this should be possible if the phenotype
> definition is an annotation of a state.

I guess Hilmar is asking for pure RDFa way to end up with a triple linking an OTU to a state.  I don't think this is possible - it requires some NeXML-aware application code, be it XSLT or a program, that knows what the matrix is for.

We need a way to embed what the actual link between the taxon and the state/phenotype is (because now we have multiple options).  I think we can do this by putting annotations in cells, and read them in our applications.  However this still won't automatically provide the triples that Hilmar is looking for.

- Jim