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

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

On Feb 14, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Matt wrote:

> I suppose though that you could add many lat/longs to one cell  
> (through specimens)?

Yes, attaching to OTUs should not preclude the ability to attach those  
to cells, and in principle one should be able to attach any number of  
geo-coordinates.

It's an interesting question though whether the geo-coordinate as a  
property of the specimen should (automatically?) propagate to the cell  
(or OTU) that the specimen is attached to. In principle, I suppose the  
answer should be yes, and in a perfect Linked Data world a reasoning  
framework or phylo-data browser should be able to look up the specimen  
metadata if a specimen is attached, and infer the geo-coordinates for  
the cell or OTU.

	-hilmar

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