1. Core Ontology J Kennedy (R Gales, R Hyam, R Kukla, J Wieczorek G Hagerdorn, M Doering, D Vieglais, S Perry, D Hobern)

2. Ontology Structure Application Ontologies Base Ontology BaseThing BaseActor Core Ontology CoreTaxonNameCoreInstitution Domain Ontology TaxonName NomenclaturalType NomeclaturalNote Specimen ABCD DarwinCore ??? Adapted Roger Hyam (TDWG TAG) TaxonName Specimen Identification

3. Process TDWG TAG Wiki – Ontology page: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/TDWGOntology –Subgroups – contributed possible reusable concepts based on existing standards Meeting of subgroup members to draft core ontology –16-18 th May @ eSI –J Kennedy, R Gales, R Hyam, R Kukla, J Wieczorek –G Hagerdorn, M Doering, D Hobern, D Vieglais, S Perry http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=687 Report on outcome of meeting http://www.nesc.ac.uk/talks/687/coremeetingreport.pdf

4. Process Wiki feedback Re-draft of core ontology New draft presented at meeting on 8 th June @ eSI –J Kennedy, R Gales, R Hyam, M Doering, D Vieglais, S Perry –UML model – not on Wiki yet… –Few small suggested changes Use core ontology to produce a domain ontology –Implement a small demo to look at issues of using ontology for an application and reusing GUIDs –Prototype tool for applying GUIDs to existing data

8. Changes to be made/addressed Ontology/Modelling –Typification (as event) –CoreTaxonOccurrence -> CoreOccurence ? –Further work on Spatio-temporal representation Descriptions Non-taxonomic Community issues: –Versioning –Provenance –Quality of Service –Assertional data