Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration
Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Kukla, R., & Paterson, T. (2005)
Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration. In B. Ludaescher, & L. Raschid (Eds.), Data Integration in the Life Sciences, 80-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530084_8
Biologists use scientific names to label the organisms described in
their data; however, these names are not unique identifiers for taxonomic entities.
Alternative taxonomic c...
A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions.
Report
Paterson, T., Cannon, A., Raguenaud, C., Russell, G., Armstrong, K. E., MacDonald, S. M., …Kennedy, J. (2003)
A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions
Taxonomy has been described as “the science of documenting biodiversity”, which involves collecting, naming, describing, identifying and classifying specimens of organisms (Ke...
Multiple overlapping classifications: issues and solutions
Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Multiple overlapping classifications: issues and solutions. In J. Kennedy (Ed.), Proceedings of 14th International conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management - SSDBM 2002, 77-86. doi:10.1109/ssdm.2002.1029708
This paper discusses issues and solutions for supporting multiple overlapping classifications in database systems. These classifications are commonly found in science, althoug...
Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy]
Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy]. In L. Kerschberg, & M. Kafatos (Eds.), Proceedings [of the] Thirteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2001, 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2001.938556
Plant taxonomy is the science of classification of plants. One of the tasks of plant taxonomy is the creation of classifications of organisms that allows the understanding of ...
Novel visualisation techniques for working with multiple, overlapping classification hierarchies
Journal Article
Graham, M., Watson, M. F., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Novel visualisation techniques for working with multiple, overlapping classification hierarchies. Taxon, 51, 351-358
A Java-based program is presented that provides a visualisation tool for display of and comparison between classification hierarchies. Taxa, or groups of taxa, can be tracked ...
The Prometheus II Description Model: an objective approach to representing taxonomic descriptions
Working Paper
MacDonald, S. M., Raguenaud, C., Pullan, M. R., Kennedy, J., Russell, G., & Watson, M. F. The Prometheus II Description Model: an objective approach to representing taxonomic descriptions)
MacDonald, S. M., Raguenaud, C., Pullan, M. R., Kennedy, J., Russell, G., & Watson, M. F. The Prometheus II Description Model: an objective approach to representing taxonomic descriptions
A model for improving the storage and communication of plant descriptions is presented. The model is flexible and yet reduces the ambiguity often present in text descriptions....
The Prometheus database for taxonomy
Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (2000)
The Prometheus database for taxonomy. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2000 (250-252). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2000.869793
This paper presents the work carried out in the Prometheus project and its motivation, taxonomy. Taxonomy presents challenges to common database systems. Because of its comple...
A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies.
Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (2000)
A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies. In V. Gesu, S. Levialdi, & L. Tarantino (Eds.), 5th Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1145/345513.345243
The visualisation of hierarchical information sets has been a staple of Information Visualisation since the field came into being in the early 1990's. However, at present, sup...
Towards a methodology for developing visualizations
Journal Article
GRAHAM, M., KENNEDY, J., & BENYON, D. (2000)
Towards a methodology for developing visualizations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 789-807. doi:10.1006/ijhc.2000.0415
This paper presents a case study of the development of a visualization to represent and explore the relationships between multiple hierarchical structures, specifically botani...
The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification.
Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (1999)
The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification. In N. W. Paton, & T. Griffiths (Eds.), Proceedings [of] IEEE User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (UIDIS) 1999, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791461
Techniques for visualising hierarchies have concentrated on displaying static structures or, in the case of dynamic hierarchies, adding or deleting nodes from the hierarchy. H...