Re: [Treebase-devel] lat/lon in nexml

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

OK, maybe it is better to attach it to the OTU, I hadn't really
considered that because in the db the coordinates are attached to row
segments, but I suppose this makes more sense.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hl...@ne...> wrote:
> (cross-posting to cdao re: alignment partitions)
>
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Rutger Vos wrote:
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>> I have added lat/lon as semantic annotations on individual cells using
>> DwC:DecimalLatitude and DwC:DecimalLongitude. [...]
>>
>> Conceivably, verbosity could be reduced by attaching the annotations
>> on <seq> elements instead, but i) although multiple <seq> elements are
>> allowed "in principle", I don't think any of our tools actually
>> support this; ii) cdao has no concept of row segments, so the
>> annotations would be lost if we transformed to nexml to rdf.
>
> If the alignment isn't concatenated with sequences from multiple specimens,
> couldn't (in fact, shouldn't) you attach the lat/long to the OTU, though?
> I.e., where do you attach the specimen currently, and it do you attach
> lat/long in a different fashion than the specimen?
>
> CDAOers: what are status and plans for describing the parts of an alignment
> right now, and is there support, current or planned, for partitions /
> segments of an alignment?
>
>        -hilmar
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