TAXREF-LD: Linked Data French Taxonomic Register

TAXREF-LD is the Linked Data representation of TAXREF (https://inpn.mnhn.fr/programme/referentiel-taxonomique-taxref?lg=en), the French national taxonomical register for fauna, flora and fungus, that covers mainland France and overseas territories. It accounts for over 500000 scientific names.

TAXREF-LD is a joint initiative of the National Museum of Natural History (http://www.mnhn.fr/) and the I3S laboratory (http://www.i3s.unice.fr/) (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria). Its model is described in [1].

[1] Michel F., Gargominy O., Tercerie S. & Faron-Zucker C. (2017). A Model to Represent Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Information as Linked Data. Application to the French Taxonomic Register, TAXREF. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv) co-located with ISWC 2017 vol. 1933. Vienna, Austria. CEUR.

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Data and Resources

Turtle Exampleexample/turtle
Link to the RDF Turtle description of species Delphinus delphis

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SPARQL endpointapi/sparql
SPARQL endpoint

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VoID descriptionmeta/void
Description using the Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets (VoID)

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TAXREF Web siteHTML
No description for this resource

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DCAT descriptionrdf/dcat
Description in the Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)

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LD exampleexample/html
Dereferencable URI of species Delphinus delphis. Content negotiation can...

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Turtle downloadZIP
Zip archive containing two files: SKOS concepts (scientific names) and OWL...

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Source	https://inpn.mnhn.fr/programme/referentiel-taxonomique-taxref?lg=en
Author	Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel (INPN)
Maintainer	Franck Michel
Version	13.0
Last Updated	June 23, 2020, 16:23 (UTC)
Created	January 27, 2017, 09:10 (UTC)
links:agrovoc-skos	4244
links:bioportal-envo	5
links:bioportal-ncbitaxon	89484
links:geonames	15
links:geospecies	4272
links:taxonconcept	20000
namespace	http://taxref.mnhn.fr/lod/
shortname	TAXREF-LD
triples	26773706