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An ontology using Darwin Core terms to make it possible to describe biodiversity resources in the Semantic Web.

• Note: the trunk version 0.4 OWL file (in rdf/xml) is under revision to make it consistent with the Darwin Core RDF Guide recommendations and the proposed changes to Darwin Core classes. That version (in rdf/xml) is here
• See the tagged version 0.3 OWL file (in rdf/xml) that is currently served when URIs are dereferenced here
• Currently using namespace: http://purl.org/dsw/
• See our Rationale, Goals and DesignPrinciples
• Important discussion of how to deal with taxonomic heterogeneity of 'individuals'
• Example RDF
• Example SPARQL queries

Classes used by darwin-sw (with associated properties):

• dwc:Event
• dwc:Identification
• dwc:Occurrence
• dwc:Taxon
• dcterms:Location
• foaf:Person and foaf:Document
• dsw:IndividualOrganism
• dsw:Token and dsw:Specimen