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Full of beans: a study on the alignment of two flowering plants classification systems

Cheng, Yi-Yun; Ludäscher, Bertram

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Title
Full of beans: a study on the alignment of two flowering plants classification systems
Author(s)
  • Cheng, Yi-Yun
  • Ludäscher, Bertram
Issue Date
2018
Keyword(s)
  • taxonomy alignment
  • KOS alignment
  • interoperability
  • Knowledge Organization System
Abstract
Advancements in technologies such as DNA analysis have given rise to new ways in organizing organisms in biodiversity classification systems. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of aligning two classification systems for flowering plants using a logic-based, Region Connection Calculus (RCC-5) approach. The older “Cronquist system” (1981) classifies plants using their mor- phological features, while the more recent Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (APG IV) (2016) system classifies based on many new methods including genome-level analysis. In our approach, we align pairwise concepts X and Y from two taxonomies using five basic set relations: congruence (X=Y), inclusion (X>Y), inverse inclusion (X
Publisher
Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS)
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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