10-Jul-2006 A Case for LSIDs and RDF in Biodiversity Informatics

What's the Problem?

Imagine you are a biologist looking at a group of organisms. You may be interested in these organisms because they occupy similar ecological niches or the same geographical region or for any other number of reasons. In order to study these organisms you need to gather data from different sources. As you gather data you learn more and your requirements change. You may start by requiring taxonomic and distribution data but move on to needing molecular and descriptive informati