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---+ Species Profile Model

---++ Definition

The Species Profile Model is designed to enable an entity to express information about a taxon to a range of different client applications.

This definition implies (to RogerHyam at least):

   1. The data model does not define the entity - the entity already exists and is referenced in some way...
   2. The data model does not define a taxon - the taxon already exists and is referenced in some way...
   3. The information is typed so as to be useful.
   4. The model must either:
      1. restrict the information to a set of defined information types.
      2. be extensible/modular to allow for a range of information types. 
   5. Not all client applications are known to the entity.

---++ Elements Charts

Summary chart of the main elements from Fish BASE, Plinian Core, IASPS and Nature Serve:
   * http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/species-models.pdf

Top elements selected by workshop attendees:
   * http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/aggregated-top-elements.pdf

A chart with element names and definitions developed during the species model workshop:
   * http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/speciesModelElements.xls

Schemas for various Australasian electronic flora projects
   * [[AustralasianFloraProjects][A discussion and reporting area for Australasian online Flora projects]]

---++ Sample Species Instance Documents

These two examples (fish and nematode) are pre-workshop examples made available to get the discussion going and thus differ somewhat from the actual model developed in the workshop (not actually RDF expressed in the ontology)
   * Fish record: http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/fish-record.xml
   * Nematode record: http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/images/speciesmodel/nematode-record.xml

See also InstanceExamples for further discussions. 

These kinds of species descriptions begin to overlap with SDD (http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/SDD/WebHome).

---++ Resources

Plinian Core: http://www.inbio.ac.cr/pliniancore or http://www.pliniancore.org

Nature Serve species schema: http://services.natureserve.org/technical/speciesSchema.htm

GISIN IASPS (Invasive Alien Species Profile Schema): http://wiki.cs.umb.edu/twiki/bin/view/IASPS/WebHome

Fish Base species page for _Salmo salar_. Note the "more information" box with further species tags at bottom of page:
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=236

The definition of SPM can be found here:

http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SpeciesProfileModel.rdf

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