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

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

I would like to hear what use cases Ryan (the original poster of the
ticket) had in mind and what needs to happen to meet his requirements.
Is there a dryad<->treebase interoperability use case you're trying to
implement?

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hl...@ne...> wrote:
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> On Feb 14, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Matt wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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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