Dear Roy,
thanks a lot for this nice example of true interoperability. Yet, two questions remain: 1) what I would be even more interested in is the inverse problem, i.e. given a standard_name, I would like to know which compound it contains. 2) I expect that this is more difficult, in particular if we don't know a priori that the given standard_name does contain a compound name. Generally, this is where I see the difficulty with your brokered approach: how do you find out which controlled vocabulary list(s) have to be applied in order to identify the components of a standard_name? Think of "tendency_of_X_due_to_emissions_from_Y" where you want to link both the compound and the emission sector to the respecitve controlled vocabulary table. Then, in another standard_name you will find some marine bacteria or so which relate to yet another vocabulary list, and so on. Unless I miss the point here, I would still argue that it will be more efficient and less ambiguous if the link would be provided in the standard_name
table itself.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Martin
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:30:42 +0100
From: "Lowry, Roy K." <rkl at bodc.ac.uk<mailto:rkl at bodc.ac.uk>>
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Subject: [CF-metadata] Extensions to the Standard Name table
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Dear All,
Martin Schultz was proposing an extension to the Standard Name table to provide a means of easily identifying the Standard Names associated with a given atmospheric contaminant. What follows provides an alternative way to address his use case. Go to the URL
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/sparql/ and copy the SPARQL query at the end of this message into the box, choose your output format and press 'Get Results'. If you don't want 'carbon monoxide' simply replace 'Carbon monoxide' by another valid EEA contaminant name.
For the techies on the list, this is done by a federated SPARQL query involving SPARQL endpoints on vocabulary servers at BODC and the EEA. This is based on string matching, but could be made more robust by implementing an EEA/Standard Names mapping in NVS should this be requested by the CF community.
Cheers, Roy.
PREFIX skos: <
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX j.0: <
http://rdfdata.eionet.europa.eu/airbase/schema/>
PREFIX rdfs: <
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
SELECT ?urie ?labele ?urin ?labeln WHERE {
BIND("Carbon monoxide" AS ?pollutant)
SERVICE<
http://cr.eionet.europa.eu/sparql>
{
?urie skos:inScheme <
http://rdfdata.eionet.europa.eu/airquality/components/>.
?urie skos:prefLabel ?labele.
?urie j.0:pollutant ?pollutant.
}.
<
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P07/current/> skos:member ?urin.
?urin skos:prefLabel ?labeln.
?urin skos:definition ?defn.
FILTER CONTAINS (str(lcase(?defn)),str(lcase(?pollutant)))
}
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